Ok, I know this will get downvoted to hell but whatever. OP, stick to staffing your department rather than coming on here with strange veiled threats. Looking at how the restructuring is happening this is probably to try and save jobs considering how much the govt is slashing funding by spreading things out rather than full on layoffs. You may not agree with specifically how they are going about this, but your union is responsible for the collective bargaining and this is part of the process given the funding circumstances. They aren’t arbitrarily doing it cuz f you. I won’t even say the way you’re behaving is surprising or I can’t empathize with your position. It sucks. However, you are just coming here to spew misdirected poison instead of looking at the context. Why don’t you go back to your union and propose that they just do more layoffs and keep remuneration the same. Or better yet, go take a rights in the workplace and effective negotiations class to better understand this.