Quotations

«Management has cut staff, brought in temp workers and slashed our wages and benefits, ... We deal with extremely sick people in need of the cleanest, most sterile environment and food made to their exact nutritional needs. This is a not a fast-food type of setting. When you work in a hospital, it requires a special skill set -- we need to know our jobs or else the patients will suffer. It becomes tougher every day to encourage our dedicated co-workers to stick around, because of the lack of a contract, and the cuts to our wages and benefits.»

«an unfair labor-practices strike.»

«I'm excited they're here. They're helping a whole lot by being here. We need them to win. We need them to give us a lift and get the city back on its feet.»

«We're thinking that it's a very good showing for my first time out. We had a very crowded field of people who were interested, ... We're just looking forward to making sure people know who I am in the general.»

«She loved her neighbors. She loved getting company, and she had lots of friends.»

«We all have painted china hanging and sitting all over our houses.»

«She baked coconut cream pies for anybody. If somebody died, she'd get a call and someone would ask her to bake a couple of pies. She sent pies to people we had no idea who they were.»

«She loved to travel with me and my sister. If we called and said we were going anywhere, we had to take her along.»

«It would be my pleasure to visit Greg Nickels and ask him to establish a fund, ... We need to work as a team, as a city. This is a prime opportunity.»

«This is a toxic chemical.»