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...
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,'
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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.
carried carry election strategy
(It was) the strategy during the election that was carried out and mandated for me to carry out as the president, and I was suspended for that.
believe extremely led members situation wisdom
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.
basis bit chrysler local picked serious signal start table
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,
dealing difficult excellent good job people terms
There's a good mood, ... People know the union, and the company, by the way, have done an excellent job in terms of dealing with what was a very difficult situation.
business member union usual
Every member of our union realizes it's not business as usual anymore.
appear changed clearly tone weekend
The tone has changed clearly over the weekend and it would appear a settlement is imminent.
although close fall far feeling somewhat
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'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.
cover economic finally pattern proposal table
We finally have the economic proposal on the table that does cover the pattern issue,
amount thrown
We've made a substantial amount of change, but no one is going to be thrown out of the street.
against almost council spoke
That's the only thing that he spoke against at almost every council meeting.
solve
We have to solve that or it's a showstopper for sure.