A 'poor' engineer says
I feel very little remorse to those who have lost their job. It's sounds to me that the goose that lays the golden egg has been well and truly stuffed.
Get back to work, continue the projects which will save you workload in the future and ignore the Union which is obviuosly profitteering out of this melee by creaming of a percentage of your lottery money earnings.
Oh and join the real-world!