RE:The waves are predicting a settlement soon.I have a serious number of shares, so this strike means a lot to me. What I see is two sides who are entrenched completely in their positions. The union is refusing to work the company schedule, and the company is refusing to allow any other schedule. Things like money can be agreed to eventually, but principles are difficult to drop. It's only my two cents, but I don't see this one getting settled soon. I would be surprised if anything changed in January or February. I see lots of Tiger sugar on the grocery store shelves, so sales will be down this quarter and next. If the dividend is to stay, the comnpany has to be saving more money in wages than it is losing in sales, roughly speaking. I would not buy more shares in this environment. Reading between the lines, the company is iimplying that closing the facility is a possibility. If that happens, we can say goodbye to the divvie for multiple years as money is diverted to a new location. I don;t think the union believes closure could happen, It appears to be, on the surface, a question of union workers not giving up weekends and 8 hour shifts, while the company wants rotating twelve hour shifts regardless of the day of the week. While there are countless people who would take those company shifts, they don't get a vote. If this is to end with workers going back, the company may have to bribe them with much higher wages. This of course defeats the purpose of the shifts, so, what will happen? One of the two sides will have to blink. It does not seem to be a question of wages, rather than shifts, and there are not many ways to shuffle shifts. So I think it is going to go down to the wire, when the company is losing too much business or market share or money, and the workers losing too many paycheques, like a couple of boxers punching each other into the hospital but unable to back off, they'll stagger until someone falls over..