Ex-Canadian Auto Workers president Hargrove has died: Unifor

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Canada’s largest private sector union, former Canadian automobile workers President Buzz Hargrove’nin said.

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In his statement on Sunday, Unifor said Basil “Buzz” Hargrove was “a popular and iconic figure in Canada’s labor movement ve and that he was tirelessly an advocate for working people and a deep respected leader”.

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Hargrove was the National President of the CAW from 1992 to 2008, shortly before the union reached a compulsory pension age of 65.

In 2013, CAW merged with the Union of Communication, Energy and Articles to become UNIFOR.

Born in Bath in 1944, Unifor was born in NB, Hargrove said that Hargrove grew up in a family with 10 children and started working in the workshop of Chrysler’s Windsor Assembly facility.

As the President of the CAW Unifor, General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, Air Canada and CN Rail, led to negotiations with large employers such as CAW, and said that it provides gains that increase high standards between sectors.

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Unifor National President Lana Payne said in the Union’s statement, “He never forgot where he came from-and he carried this working class spirit to every meeting room, bargaining session and public forum with him.”

“His passion, his mind, and his uncompromising belief in justice for people who work shaped the labor movement we know today.”

In 1985, Hargrove took over the leadership of Bob White, who led the Union as the US -based United automobile workers.

The Canadian Union, which did not participate in the bargaining direction of UAW, negotiated some of the richest contracts for workers in Canada and expanded to other sectors, including Airlines, mine and fishing beyond the car industry under the leadership of Hargrove.

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Unıfor said that Harrove was a “determined social unionist ve and pushed it to fight for broader social justice problems such as public health, pension safety, equality and fair trade.

“We owe him a gratitude for everything he did to build a more fair Canada,” Payne added.

Hargroove told reporters that he did not plan to make it easier.

At a press conference in Toronto in 2008, Hargrove said, ım I will not sit in a rocking chair and I will not play golf, this is not my style. ”

Among his later activities, he worked with the NHL players Association for more than a year, first on the union’s advisory board and then as a temporary ombudsman. He also served as the director of the working management relations Center at TED Rogers School of Metropolitan University.

In 2008, Hargrove was elected as the Officer of the Canadian Order.

Unifor said that the details of the celebration of his life and heritage will be shared in the coming days.

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