Our objective is to hire [the workers] back, and we put that in writing for them. We just didn't want to find ourselves unable to make payroll.

We make our own independent agreement with our workers.

We said from the beginning that we would revisit the layoffs in three to six months.

We made it clear that we need to balance our budget for 2006.

I do not want my film being broadcast on the network unless it is willing to let its own workers back in to work and promises to bargain with them in good faith,

You know if I were writing tickets right now it would cost you $500 for holding your child in your lap.