One of his co-workers was also in there, and he is in the hospital at this time. We are also dealing with an injured firefighter, again due to trees,

This represents clearly significant additional risks to workers.

Businesses are finding it increasingly difficult to hire qualified workers to fill specific positions, especially high-tech and skilled-labor jobs, which are in demand in Connecticut. The retirement of the baby boom generation in a few years will lead to a critical shortage of workers with the skills necessary to compete in today's high-tech global economy. We need to make sure that employees entering the work force can help drive the innovation and productivity gains that our economy needs to remain competitive in the global marketplace.

The movement to notebooks for people who are largely not mobile workers and were doing it because of lower heat and smaller space requirements, that part of the trend flattened out a bit as we got to very small form factor desktops and LCD monitors becoming more affordable.

We fear that many children are among the dead and injured. Our rescue workers are expecting not just seriously injured people, but also people suffering from hypothermia.

We want to go from confrontation to cooperation, ... We want our members and our workers to have health care, we want our members to get wages and improvements based on productivity. Most of all, we want our workers to be treated with dignity.