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.
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.
based ford importance relationships union workforce
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,
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,'
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,
backing
We are not backing away from the pattern,
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.
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.
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.
announce avoid optimistic today
We are optimistic today that we can avoid a strike. We could announce something today.
agreement rich
We're not going to have a rich agreement, but we're going to have a responsible agreement.