This is becoming the pre-eminent issue of labor negotiations. Sikorsky is certainly making good money, and if they want good workers they will have to pay good benefits.

a waste of the taxpayers' money.

Labor was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things.

This is not just broad-back manual labor. These are companies that can make a lot of money and provide excellent jobs if they can find that talent. And if they don't, they could easily collapse.

This marks the sixth 'new-era' labor contract we have forged in the last two years, and it was accomplished ahead of contract expiration without a single minute of lost production.

A quarter of our claims that cost money come from 15 percent of the state's labor force. When you're younger, there's more of a sense of invincibility.