and 5 is the issue right now. interestingly enough, one of the lennox, you're going to hear the announcements that they ask for so far as he's putting through crystal clear, much pressure, then you might be able to, on a busy day. why? because this is actually nobody here, and this is effectively the microcosm of the situation in many apples right across this country and told me that the union has been criticized for quoting the strike for the initial warning, tell us about its demonic the what the union wants is an 8 percent pay arise for its work is the union says that that work whose needs to have the hard work rewarded. is it what that need to keep up with inflation? but the only way to do that is from management's to realize that i make an 8 percent pay rice. and also that would be somewhere in the region between $3350.00 euro. that's around $36370.00. extra per month for every staff member. the issue is management have made no offer. they haven't said yes. so no to that. they've not made any other kind of offer. that's why you have the union's saying strike action with, right, it's a wa

owen good to be with tonight as just mentioned, you have some connection to the lennox library and. berkshire berkshire kid once upon a time. so this a little bit of a homecoming stop on your book tour. could you tell us a little bit about about your the first part of your story for berkshires and and this particular place, the lenox library and and why it means so much to come back here. yeah, absolutely. i grew up in monterey, which many of you know, and i left and came back in my mid-thirties when i did my masters at fordham university and for my thesis project, i examined julius rockwell, who was a lenox native, who was the republican party's first gubernatorial nominee in history in 1850s. and i did research here because his papers are here and in the process, me and the librarian amy lafave found a letter from david davis, who was a supreme court former supreme court justice, which was rather and important. he it was about the election, the tilden election. so i won't bore you guys with all of that, but it was a very special time. i spent a lot of time here in the library doin

owen good to be with tonight as just mentioned, you have some connection to the lennox library and. berkshire berkshire kid once upon a time. so this a little bit of a homecoming stop on your book tour. could you tell us a little bit about about your the first part of your story for berkshires and and this particular place, the lenox library and and why it means so much to come back here. yeah, absolutely. i grew up in monterey, which many of you know, and i left and came back in my mid-thirties when i did my masters at fordham university and for my thesis project, i examined julius rockwell, who was a lenox native, who was the republican party's first gubernatorial nominee in history in 1850s. and i did research here because his papers are here and in the process, me and the librarian amy lafave found a letter from david davis, who was a supreme court former supreme court justice, which was rather and important. he it was about the election, the tilden election. so i won't bore you guys with all of that, but it was a very special time. i spent a lot of time here in the library doin