“This is a money fight, analogous to...
“This is a money fight, analogous to what you would get if the company said, ‘Would you take a 25-cent cut in wages?’ Unions are not going to react kindly to such a request. I think they’ve decided to draw the line now and fight about this.”
--Henry Aaron, a Brookings Institute economist, on the strike by workers at three regional telephone companies over such issues as a bid by management to make employees pick up a bigger share of their health-care expenses.
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