I can only afford to give union benefits if I increased the price.

They are paying $500,000 a year in union benefits no other Chinatown restaurants have to.

They keep their union jobs and all union benefits.

Furthermore, the state benefit is a fixed sum, but the union benefits depend on previous earnings.

Reducing the relatively high cost of union benefits in Waterbury is seen as a crucial step toward improving the city's finances.

Management, which will resume or supplement its contributions to union benefit and pension funds, estimated the total wage increase at about 10.8 percent.

The Republican minority favors layoffs and a reduction in union benefits.

Many women want jobs where union benefits and wages would allow them to work in a single better-paying position rather than multiple lower-paying ones.

For more information about civil union benefits, go to www.ben.omb.delaware.gov/cu.

Transit-system employees doing the same tasks on a neighboring platform earn from $11 to $19 an hour, with union benefits.