How can they do this and does this entail future down sizing?
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OP, the correct spelling is,... Cymric. Small detail, I guess. Anyway,... I worked in the Cymric District, in the early '90s, just prior to a reorg effort. By it's nature, Cymric was and probably remains, an expensive asset to operate, and our District Manager left no doubt in anyone's mind that, were we to survive, we'd have to bring our operating costs down. Am I correct in assuming, from your note, that a portion of Cymric's workforce is now union? If so,... and based upon my experiences in other Chevron facilities,... unions breed nothing but inefficiency, pettiness, corruption, and higher costs. I'll go out on a limb, here, and guess that (again, assuming there ARE union positions, on site at Cymric, now) similar consequences have been visited upon Cymric. If such IS the case, it would make sense to displace any and all union labor the company is able, or allowed by contract, to do. I would expect immediate and sizeable improvement, by every measure.