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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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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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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There is still such a vast difference in the costs it would be impossible to get close to our costs.
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Just because we're a low wage economy and you can get someone to do our job cheaper, you don't have the right to sell our jobs as long as we're meeting the commitment of quality and productivity.
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We're certainly working towards a settlement and quite frankly, I'd like to do it before the 20th, given the state of the industry and the state of the companies, ... If we can do it early, I think that would be a credit to all of us.
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We finally have the economic proposal on the table that does cover the pattern issue,
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We've made a substantial amount of change, but no one is going to be thrown out of the street.
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Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.
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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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We will move ahead and we will have a stronger position in terms of progressive politics down the road.
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Unfortunately, I don't think they would be doing it this way if there was not going to be some negative news about changes. If there were no changes, they could just simply give us a phone call. But it doesn't look good.
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We thought this would be a lot easier than it's turned out to be,
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We had to negotiate solutions to some very tough problems with Ford in this bargaining,
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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.