Buzz Hargrove
Buzz Hargrove
Basil Eldon "Buzz" Hargrove, OCis the former National President of the Canadian Auto Workers trade union. He is currently serving as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University's Ted Rogers School of Management...
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The CAW remains committed to strengthening working class politics and we will expand our financial support and efforts to work with other like-minded groups in our common goal of building a progressive alternative in our country.
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We've had one strike in the last 30 years with Ford. It shows that they work a lot harder to get something that is mutually acceptable. That relationship, that history we think is our greatest strength going into bargaining.
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We've had one strike in the last 30 years with Ford, ... It shows that they work a lot harder to get something that is mutually acceptable.
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I have decided in 1996 that the Chrysler workers will lead the bargaining,
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We faced one of the most difficult challenges in bargaining that we have in a good many years, ... the Ford workers probably knew that more than anyone, given the amount of downtime they've had, given the uncertainty, the media speculation of workplace closures and layoffs.
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Workers everywhere are just starting to say, 'Look, we're fed up with this. We're going to start demanding that we have respect and we have job security and we have decent wages and benefits,'
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What we did here was based on relationships and commitments by Ford to its workforce and the long-term relationship with our union and the importance they place on us,
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I keep thinking it's going to be easier, and I must say it was at the other two companies.
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I'm more optimistic today, we should be able to do this in the next few hours. The only way we couldn't is if they stuck to their position on reducing our relief and didn't solve the job security issues in St. Catharines, Windsor, Oshawa and Woodstock.
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I'm up to the challenge. I love what I do and I'm not offended by somebody running at all.
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I'm not very optimistic at this point. The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs .Ê.Ê. to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.
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I'm not very optimistic at this point, ... The big thing is the demand on jobs that they have, on outsourcing our jobs ... to anywhere in the world that can do it cheaper.
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It was pretty clear that they couldn't do anything by saying we led the way in improving wages, pensions and job security for people in a time when they were going the other way in the U.S.,
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It's a major restructuring. I don't want to downplay it,