"We want a contract," Mike Hammock said.

"We feel denied, most certainly," Danny Plybon said.

Feeling denied and trying to get answers by picketting; that's what union city workers are doing in Huntington in hopes of reaching a new contract.

"We could not have a job at the drop of a hat," Hammock said.

Hammock works for the city and says he's tired of doing the job with no security to back him up.

"We've worked for a year with no contract...at all," he said.

Mayor Kim Wolfe says a new contract right now is out of the question, because his administration isn't sure whether it's in the best interest of the citizens to have collective bargaining agreements.

But union workers say they're upset because Wolfe's administration won't even come to the table. The old contract expired June 2008.

"Refusing to sit down and talk with us is just a slap in the face," Plybon said.

"Basically we were told 'when we get around to it,' then we were told 'no negotiations'," Hammock said.

But what the mayor has offered is a "memorandum of understanding," meaning as long as there's no drastic economic downturn, the jobs are safe, which is an idea that does not sit well with protestors.