CedarBridge staff are demanding meaningful dialogue with higher ups after a maintenance worker at the school was laid off.The release came just a week after ten Bermudian cafeteria workers at the school lost their jobs due to outsourcing.Speaking yesterday, Bermuda Public Services Union leader Ed Ball said: “The staff are a bit flabbergasted that there continues to be organised reductions in staff without proper consultation.”He said that according to British law, meaningful dialogue must take place in a unionised work space before layoffs. In this most recent case, he said that no meaningful dialogue took place.“It’s unfair that we haven’t had the opportunity to come together and have meaningful dialogue, put our heads together about how we are going to deal with this economic recession,” he said.“We could have put our heads together and come up with something, even if it means we would cut working hours.“There are a number of options that could have been taken to keep their colleagues working.”In addition to leaving another CedarBridge staff member out of work, Mr Ball said the move puts more pressure on the remaining facilities staff.In the end though, he said it would be the students at the school who suffer.“You just cannot keep cutting and cutting and cutting people at one of the schools without there being consequences for the students. You just can’t,” he said.Yesterday school staff downed tools to attend a press conference, in which they voiced their displeasure about the recent firings.Mr Ball said that CedarBridge staff have also made the decision to boycott Flying Chef, who will be taking over the cafeteria contract, but Flying Chef owner Sara Masters said last night that it didn’t seem right that the business should be targeted.She said that Flying Chef had responded to an advertised contract, and was not involved in the decision to fire anyone.“I don’t understand what I’m at fault for,” she said.“I have just put an add in the paper that should be coming out in the next day or so to hire more staff, and I’ve spoken with [CedarBridge Chief Operating Officer Stuart] Crockwell and I have said I’m happy to have him forward on resumes.“I strive to hire Bermudians, and the majority of the people who work for me are Bermudians. We are trying to expand to keep people employed, we are fighting tooth and nail to keep our staff.”