"The economy is so bad, it's hard to know what to say. I worked a month last year. The most important thing is more work."
"Keeping local workers on local jobs is important to me."
"Keep our good benefits, and make sure we protect collective bargaining so that we have a say. What's happening in Wisconsin is a threat to us. It makes everyone weaker."
"We know that our heath and welfare costs are going to continue to rise, but if we take a cut in our wages, then prevailing wages will drop as well."
"At the very least, we have to keep what we have in this tough economy. And we have to work to improve public opinion of unions."
Jesse Hurt
Local 34
Will Olson
Local 1599
Thad Transue
Local 152
Brian Baker
Local 1599
Donnavan Kelley
Local 34
"I'm close to retirement, so naturally I just want them to leave our retirement alone."
"I would like to see cost of living increases on the wages and any increases necessary to maintain the heath and welfare and pension benefits."
"If we can break even that's fine, and don't lose anything we already have."
"I don't want to see the Carpenters give up anything on the wages or benefits. We need to maintain our standards and keep up with the cost of living."
"We can always use more money. Extend our job jurisdiction over more of the drilling work. Foundation work is opening up, we should try to get more of that."
