cementing plan. we pretty much kim to a consensus on that. so today s effort into tomorrow will be to finish off cementing the well from the top down. let me state and i stated this several times, that this is not the end. but it will virtually assure us, that there will be no chance of oil leaking into the environment. we will then proceed to finish the relief well. the relief well is currently four and a half feet away from the mecondo well and 100 to 110 feet away from where they would enter the annulus. they have a drill pipe down and they re ready to drill through the cement shoe and continue finishing out the relief well. and that will happen after the cement has been cured for a certain amount of time and we ll proceed. elsewhere in the gulf, we are starting to take a look at the large vessels offshore. the skimming vessels. what we need to do is kind of collapse those back in closer to shore. we need to start focusing on the areas we already know had impacts. these are places l
do you think that the union demands on those fronts will need to change permanently to accommodate companies need for growth? we know, bottom line, you ve got to have viable, profitable companies to have long-term job security for our membership. we ve shown our creativity, we ve shown our ability to work together with management. we ve shown that u.s. workers can make the best products in the world and be global lly competitive. that s our goal. we want long-term job security. we do that by being globally competitive. we re going to do that the right way. bob, good to talk to you today. thank you. thank you. let s go to the gulf coast right now and breaking news. admiral thad allen is giving an update about the static kill happening in those gulf waters. let s listen. whether or not the drill pipe was still in tact and how that might impact the cementing plan. we pretty much came to the consensus on that, so today s effort into tomorrow will be to finish off cementing the