Whoa!

Well, we have sent a demand to bargain to the boss. He and the other two bosses, the Chief and the Direct Supe, are treating it like a 9/11 attack. They feel that it was a personal attack. I seriously doubt if they had read the Collective Bargaining agreement. Had a long conversation with the Chief after work yesterday. He kept saying we should have ghone to him. Well, maybe. But he did not come to us. Understand, there is a great deal of suspicion and distrust that goes on here. Staff and Union are very nervous about the potential to contract out the jobs on the site. The fact that there has been no message from anyone abouit why there is contracting and how far it will go, has any only fcuieled the suspicions. The Union, rightly, issued the demand to bargain only to be informed. Management isn't communicating. Hopefully, this will make them sit down and explain, not necessarily consult, what is going to happen to us.