When should workers ask for more money but in good times? It's fair. Employers need to see that it can't go on like this.

We expect a contract with a respectable wage increase. We are willing to negotiate.

We are highly interested in a mediated solution. However, there is still a very long way between an improved offer and a solution. The employers will have to move quite a bit.

Anyone who treats staff like this is preparing the ground for a big fight.

This is a model case of a healthy company being sucked dry.

Betty Montgomery believes the money should be given to the Bureau of Workers' Compensation. That's why she did that. Others apparently have different opinions.