Co-ops of this size are in a difficult spot. We should be doing a better job for our employees. It's a wonderful place, but we are not being socially responsible.

We're grieving for our employees, our customers, their families and their loved ones.

The rates we are proposing are of course higher than those currently given to employees.

We personally would rather have a tax ? that horrible word ? for everybody to have health coverage than (let insurance companies) charge us $9,000 for basically nothing.

Communicating with employees, customers, vendors and the communities where your company operates is just as important as communicating with the media.

Businesses would rather go to a state where the employees have the right to join a union or not to join a union. In that sense, then, it's sort of a zero-sum game - where they are competing with and attracting business from other states.