Union negotiators have put the figure as high was $200 million.

He said the city's negotiating team is available to meet at any time with teachers' union negotiators.

Union negotiators said they did not want to risk losing other benefits.

"When union negotiators say the two sides were miles apart, they are correct," he said.

We can only go so far as union negotiators.

Early yesterday afternoon, union negotiators said they were confident that an agreement was at hand.

But union negotiators took part in the collaborative process that announced success yesterday.

At yesterday's session, union negotiators responded to that question and others.

More often, union negotiators said, a supervisor tells a group of nurses that someone must stay longer.

Smiling, he took the microphone from the nervous union negotiator.