I don't think the walkouts affected negotiations, because with FPI they're not just negotiating our plant. One time we had 13 different plants that negotiated the same time. There used to be some things different for the seasonal plants and the bigger plants, but we have never negotiated for just our plant alone. Usually the big plants negotiated together.

You know, we thought we had problems when the plant was open, but everyday problems was really nothing when you looks at it now. You'd go in every day and problems would come up. The biggest thing was if someone got fired. The rest was just everyday problems, like somebody wasn't called into work or somebody got twenty dollars bonus that never showed up on their cheque. At the time it was important and I'm sure if we went back there again all of this would be coming around again, but those problems are nothing to what the people got now. Since the plant closed down we've been worked day and night. I was a TAGS liaison officer for a few months this year. Really it was only what I was doing for two years since I got laid off at the plant looking after people in the plant if they got any problems with TAGS. I just did it on my own time.

We were making good money up to the plant and people had their life set on what they were getting. You had the money coming in and then all of a sudden, gone, nothing. And as the saying goes, when poverty comes in the door, love goes out the window. Like in a lot of families, your husband would probably be on one shift and your wife on another. When one would be going in the door, the other one would be coming out. The only time you'd probably see each other would be on the weekends. Then all of a sudden the plant was closed down - two people together with nothing to do, getting on each other's nerves. You're home day in and day out and knowing that your job is gone and the future is so uncertain. We don't know if we're ever going to work again.