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...
commitment economy job jobs low meeting quality sell wage
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.
manage resist threaten union
Our union does not resist change, so long as we can manage it in a way that does not threaten our members.
canada values view
I think that was a short-term view of the values of Canada.
angry believe canadian consistent frustrated letting looking market opposed worry
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.
against almost council spoke
That's the only thing that he spoke against at almost every council meeting.
ability america built canada close emerging export growth imports lack leisure major markets north problem ship united
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.
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,
chrysler decided lead workers
I have decided in 1996 that the Chrysler workers will lead the bargaining,
ditch far
But we're also far enough apart, ... that we could end up in the ditch tonight.
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,
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.
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.
looking moving president
Right now, as the president of the union, I'm looking to moving to DaimlerChrysler,