84 Quotes by Buzz Hargrove

(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.

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.

After some tough negotiations we have reached a tentative agreement. This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors and of course we anticipated that.

So we're going to give them the opportunity now to move off of that and try to get a settlement even before the 20th but failing that there will be a strike. And the last formal get-together we had with DaimlerChrysler they werfe just as tought then as they were prior to us selecting Ford.

This is not the richest settlement. There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry which means our union has to face it as well.

This is not the richest settlement ... There will be moderate improvements in most areas. I think it is a responsible response by Ford Motor Co. in some of the most difficult times that we've faced as an industry, which means our union has to face it as well.

This has been a very difficult and challenging set of negotiations with General Motors. The challenges we faced here didn't happen by chance. They happened because of the declining market share of General Motors, Ford and DaimlerChrysler.

They tabled a large number of offsets, some make sense as long as it doesn't disadvantage our members, ... But a number of those we're just not going to buy into.

They're demanding major outsourcing of our jobs, not because they need it but because they think they can make them somewhere else cheaper.