[Tumbleweed_Connection]

How would so much of industry exist today without bar codes? This union wants to continue to do their work manually. Why?

[Green]

I don't believe they want to continue to do their work manually. They want the technology workers to be union.

[Billy_bob_bob]

Please re-read my posting. As I understand it, the union has no objection to the new technology. The union strongly objects to the idea that new jobs created by this technology are intended by management to be filled using non-union labor.

If management would agree to hire only union people for these new jobs, then the union will agree to a new contract and the strike/lockout/mess ends.