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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Clearly, in the wake of today's announcement, the long-run future of the St. Thomas assembly plant is in jeopardy.
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He says it's much more costly for them to do the same thing and he wanted to be absolutely clear that that's not acceptable and that we have to find a way to deal with that in bargaining.
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The likelihood of a strike at midnight tomorrow is reduced substantially by the progress we made over the weekend.
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The likelihood of a strike tomorrow at midnight is greatly reduced.
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So we're going to give them the opportunity now to move off of that and try to get a settlement even before the 20th but failing that there will be a strike. And the last formal get-together we had with DaimlerChrysler they werfe just as tought then as they were prior to us selecting Ford.
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Am I a little more optimistic? I guess you could say yes. The only problem we still have is there are still some offsets we find offensive.
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Right now, as the president of the union, I'm looking to moving to DaimlerChrysler,
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I'm so frustrated and angry about this decision, I can't believe it. It's irresponsible at best. My worry is it's consistent with the Harper government's idea of letting the market decide, as opposed to looking after Canadian interests.
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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'll open up a lot of old wounds. These things aren't done without a lot of emotion.
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It was an extremely challenging situation that could have led to a shutdown. I believe our members will see the wisdom in what we have done here.
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That means two or three more vehicles per shift, ... That's good for General Motors but not for the people who build them.
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Our major problem is imports and lack of ability to export into the emerging growth markets of Asia. They ship into North America at their leisure and they close their markets to anything built in Canada and the United States.
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Things at the local table picked up a bit yesterday. For Chrysler to start doing local negotiations on a serious basis this early, it may very well be a signal they want to get a settlement,