There are guidelines, but they’re generally more along the lines of first-, second-, third-level grievances. The first level should be handled right at the local workplace: sort it out there, and if it can’t be resolved there, it gets picked up. I think if we’re going to have timelines, it should be based on the realistic opportunity to reduce the number of grievances. If we have 250 outstanding grievances and they can only resolve them through arbitration, we only have so many arbitration officers. The union has agreed to set aside one week of every month up until the end of 2009 to deal with arbitrations. I don’t know how long
it takes to resolve an arbitration. Assuming one week for arbitration, depending on the number of arbitrations…. Unless we could have some control over the work, it would be difficult to set a timeline on it.