I thought while B was out on strike (hopefully not for long) I would talk about what is going on and how we have been affected by it in the past week.
Week 12
So we have basically been at this strike for 3 months now. It still doesn’t look like it is going to end anytime soon. They have now called in a federal mediator. I think this definitely needs to go into someone else’s hands. It doesn’t seem that at a local level they are going to be able to solve all the issues and still adhere to the national contract that was approved. If you don’t understand what I am saying, I don’t understand it either.
They finally had a dinner Friday night at the union hall. The past few weeks they have magically had the hall booked, but never let us know until Thursday night. I was excited to go. They were having hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill. Unfortunately, it was such a nice night and S wanted to stay home and play outside so that is exactly what we did. We stayed outside until 8:30pm and then came in and straight to baths and showers. B was busy ripping a roof off so we would have to go to the dinner without him so I was iffy about going by myself.
B got text and pictures from other union members that they got huge shipments of donated food from organized food drives. Go figure, I decided not to go and there was tons of food. I waited to post this until after I went to the union hall on Saturday to see if there was anything left. While they made it sound like there was a ton, there was some left. I did manage to get a little baby cereal, some apple juice for B’s smoothies, and a few cans of corn. I hate to sound like we are not grateful, because we are. They had generic peanut butter, and Cheerios, but I know B and S won’t like generic peanut butter. They are Jif boys through and through. I only give P Multi-Grain Cheerios. I like to know exactly what is going in P.