Museum officials insisted that they made a fair wage offer to the union - a raise of 3 percent a year for three years.

The union has rejected the wage offer as inadequate.

Union officials say the authority has yet to make a wage offer.

PEF revised its wage offer to 12 percent over three years.

The union has accused the school board of reducing its wage offer three times since March.

The contract's wage offer was very generous and is not going to change.

The society, which says its lawyers earn more than comparably experienced assistant prosecutors, has made no wage offer.

"They don't have a contract, and the wage offers by the state are unacceptable."

Their current one came open for changes last summer, and a new wage offer from Eastern was before the pilots when the machinists struck.