Since the unions made their offer, management has been negotiating with labor leaders for further concessions.
Union and management are still negotiating, but the 60-day cooling off period ordered by President Clinton ends next Wednesday.
The union and management negotiated today without success, one of about a dozen sessions since the lockout began.
With all that money in the pipeline, management and labor are negotiating a new contract.
Now management is asking that the guarantee be cut to $2,000 the first year of the contract and negotiated again during the second and third years.
Thompson's management negotiated a new deal with Capitol Records.
The management has negotiated its own deals with foreign travel companies, especially German ones.
United's management and its pilots' union have been negotiating a new contract since December 1998.
Competent management would have negotiated the cost of an off-site facility before unleashing the increased membership campaign.
In 1984 Thompson's management negotiated a contract with Polydor which gave him some financial security for the first time in over a decade.