May 19, 2006
We met with the company this morning and received responses to more data requests. The company passed a counter proposal on the Academic Awards and the Sickness Accident Disability Plan which contained only minor changes to their original ones.

The Unions passed a proposal on Successorship. We also passed three more data requests to the company. The session ended and we agreed to meet in sub-committee in the afternoon.

We met in sub-committee at 2pm to receive the company's counter to our job security and certification response to them. After much discussion we recessed to give both parties time to work on the issue separately. We will continue to work on proposals and issues over the weekend.

We received an overwhelming strike authorization vote so maybe the company will take our resolve seriously in the coming days. Keep up the mobilization! Next week the contract should be your main concern. No one should be working overtime voluntarily!

Eight more days!!!!