In a number of recent meetings WeyCo management claims that in order to look out for your interests the company should announce permanent reductions in harvest levels which would mean that jobs are destroyed.  Instead of what they have been practicing which is reducing volumes by laying you off for a few weeks and then working a few weeks on?  At the WeyCo group meeting the consensus was that saving jobs was more important and more needed in the long term rather than destroying jobs.  The union leadership expressed the opinion that as long as the jobs were protected by the minimum harvest levels when the market returned the jobs would return