Scrappy CAW president Buzz Hargrove led his union’s expansion well beyond the auto sector

In early May, at the homey Lake Huron retreat of Unifor, Canada’s largest private-sector union, labour legend Buzz Hargrove was in his element: talking union strategy in the face of unprecedented threats to Canada’s economic sovereignty.“I want you all to know that you’ve got this,” the former Canadian Auto Workers president told the assembled Unifor leaders who were working flat out with their members, employers and policy-makers to minimize the impact of United States President Donald Trump’s trade war.