We've seen this soft-bust union strategy before. We decided to pull the plug right then and there.

If they came around on all the other issues, we'd have to take a hard and serious look at whether to include the pension plan or doing something else. But if they won't hire back the guys they fired, I don't see how we can do it.

We've seen this before in other situations. You stall and delay, hire a bare majority, put in new work conditions. You meet once a month, two hours at a time, refuse to budge on any major issues, and drag it out until they vote out the union altogether.

We would like them to be more constrained, more enlightened. There's nothing to prevent them from doing the right thing.

It's antiquated and it's not right for the public,

We have to get it right.