Mr. Shay Cody:

A judgment must be made by the relevant union as to where it will fight the battle. We all are quite satisfied that in the great bulk of cases, the unions will argue for the continuation of these allowances, not just for existing beneficiaries but for future beneficiaries. However, it would be wrong for us to pre-empt the entire process by stating this will happen in every last case because there may well be arguments that the grounds for the original awarding of an allowance no longer stand. However, we do not want to get involved in that simply because the knowledge and arguments in that regard are best done in the areas in which they are in place.