Last night, we held a strike vote to authorize economic or job action if we are unable to reach an agreement with the companies by midnight tonight when our contract expires.

It is weird watching the news reports on TV and reading them on the various newspaper websites. Some information is correct, some is wrong, but it is what it is…

I would say that no one wants for there to be a strike or lock out, but that, unfortunately, is completely up to the companies.

We are 100% prepared, ready, and willing to walk the picket line to protect the 24% of employees who they want to layoff and to protect our jobs from being sent to non-union workers.

In any case, I had my camera with me for the Strike Authorization Vote and Negotiations Planning Session that we had last night. Our president, John Fageaux asked me to keep my camera close at hand for any other events. Stay tuned…