Thanks very much.
Yes, my union has been subjected to the use of scabs in two of our strikes. I just wanted to say that when employers use scabs to try to break strikes, the long-term effect on labour relations can be disastrous. It takes decades for unions and employers to recover from those types of conflicts. It's always difficult for labour and management to renew that relationship after a strike or after tough bargaining, but it's especially difficult when the employer has chosen to use scabs, because of the intensity of the conflict, the potential and real violence that occurs on picket lines, and the ill feelings that are brought back into the workplace. The last time the employer used scabs in one of our strikes was 1991, and it took us at least a decade to recover from that and to begin to heal the labour relations in that workplace.