They did offer the raise with one hand and then withdrew it with the other hand. Under their health care proposal, if you or your spouse or kid ended up having to go to the hospital for five days, you'd spend your whole raise.

Bob Bedard

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All of the three issues - work rules, wages and health care - are being discussed tonight.

It's a life-and-death issue for us.

The last strike lasted 40 days (in 1998), so this union is not afraid of a long strike. They will stand up for what they believe.

We've paid for health care and we're not going to pay again. We're not going to change our position.

We've gone backwards from where we were yesterday on some very important work rules.