not following the smfta community program. >> thank you, very much. >> next speaker, please. >> john hammil followed by reena jones and joel. >> my name is john and i'm the business agent for the teamsters local 665. that does the community program in the city. i represent 84 members. our contract ended with bowers on september 30th so we're coming up on six months without a contract. we have been trying to negotiate in good faith. we continue to negotiate. we reached out to gary on several occasions to move the process forwardment as most of you know, bowers is not the only tech company that is in the city. and they're also under a master agreement which falls under the whole labor harmony and making sure that it's very fair and you know, across the board with competition. so that's all we requested was the economics of the master agreement and we've come to a stall. we did have a work stoppage three weeks ago. our intent is to keep negotiating. we have offered our services any time of the day, woke, whatever it takes to get this. we have not gotten any responses of late from the bowers or