41.   Maurice Werezak, president of the North Battleford United Food and Commercial Workers union, said that the union wanted to resolve issues like bereavement leave before negotiating wages.

42.   Maher told the commission the union wanted peaceful negotiations to reconcile the matter.

43.   Moreover, it was locked in for the next five years, rather than the three years that the union had wanted.

44.   Ms. Bongay says the union wants to work with the agencies, not against them.

45.   No company would agree to what the union wanted, he said.

46.   Not that unions wanted this.

47.   Norway has long been a special case in that the union wanted it more than it wanted the union.

48.   Now that the regulations have eased, the union wants to represent those workers.

49.   New York-based WHX has plenty of cash to fund the pension plan the union wants, Bowen said.

50.   Now the pilots union wants to end that arrangement, and the issue has become a major obstacle in contract talks.