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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This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors. The challenges we faced here didn't happen by chance. They happened because of the declining market share of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.
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After some tough negotiations we have reached a tentative agreement. This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors and of course we anticipated that.
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They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think they can make them somewhere else cheaper.
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The school of thinking of a number of people around here is that he's Canadian and he might want to prove that he's not tied to his past.
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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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We have a new 1996 collective bargaining agreement, ... I think this is good for General Motors, CAW and all of our employees.
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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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We finally have the economic proposal on the table that does cover the pattern issue,
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We're close enough to do this, but far enough away to fall in the ditch, ... We're feeling somewhat better this morning, although we're not there.
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We thought this would be a lot easier than it's turned out to be,
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We took a very hard line in support of our members, that we could not and would not accept outsourcing.
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working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company.
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We're going to hang with the deadline, ... We either have a settlement or we'll have a shutdown tomorrow night at midnight. We're working toward a settlement and we hope the company is doing the same thing.
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We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their families and their communities.