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...
pain
We're not going to come out of this without some pain.
company either hang hope night tomorrow toward
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.
early jobs likely monday saying selling strike sunday
What they're saying to us is that they are selling our jobs out to the market. We're not going to take that. Sunday or early Monday we will likely tell them that we will strike them.
agreement balances employees needs
working on finalizing an agreement that balances the needs of the CAW, our employees and the company.
amount bargaining challenges difficult downtime faced ford given good knew media workers workplace
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.
afraid embrace expense families members
We're not afraid of change, we embrace change. But not at the expense of our members and their families and their communities.
decent demanding everywhere fed job respect security starting wages workers
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,'
accept hard line support took
We took a very hard line in support of our members, that we could not and would not accept outsourcing.
chrysler decided lead workers
I have decided in 1996 that the Chrysler workers will lead the bargaining,
behind couple issues
We thought we had all of this behind us this morning, and now we're back to another couple of issues that are sticklers for us,
absolutely acceptable clear deal says
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.
forced picket prediction
If I was making a prediction today, we'll be on the picket line, forced there by DaimlerChrysler management,
agreement context current economic given issues
Given the current economic context that we're in, this is not the richest-ever agreement that we have bargained, but it's a responsible bargaining, recognizing all of the issues that we face,
ditch far
But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.