I dont know if the silence you're talking about is deafening so much as normal. Typically, the immediate period of time following a very contentious work stoppage is filled with an uncomfortable working environment. As such, news  any sort of news  is slow and in dispensed in small portions. Neither side is interested in inadvertently aggravating any of the raw nerves floating around and in most cases, some silence is actually the healthiest course of action a group can follow. Perhaps that is one reason why there has been no word.