Everyone on both sides is scared, or more specifically concerned. There is a meeting today @ SAI that is inclusive of management from both companies. They are supposed to be answering questions fielded from employees of SAI. That should supply a crumb of information to further fuel more speculation.

As many of my colleagues, I am cautiously optimistic about this whole thing, and really not all that optimistic. It is just too early in the game to tell.

The hardest thing right now is waiting for enough information to come out to see just which way the collective bargaining should be steered for SAI and/or AWW.

The most important thing is that we maintain a solidarity in making this industry better.