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.

I'm wrestling with it. My position has always been to have a one-vote majority, but we'll make this work. We're going to accept it and make it work.

[Many politicians see no problem with that. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, argues that it is better for members to earmark money for their districts than to leave spending to the] bureaucrats. ... I hope not... . Pork barrel is in the eye of the beholder.

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

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