...Thompson is a union local president and actively picketed during the two-week strike in October. She also acted as a strike captain for pickets around the Capitol. Thompson said that before the strike, her supervisor had agreed to support her request...

...talks were scheduled. "If we take this settlement, we'll be losing money from what we made two years ago," said strike captain Deb Ciminski. "Because we're going into negotiations for the next (two-year) contract so soon, we have to...