Union sources told Capital that meeting was called yesterday at the request of the mayor to discuss «how to help move the city forward.» (politico.com)
The overall cost of # 1.2 bn is broadly as expected, but senior union sources said «we had no warning of this co-ordinated announcement for each scheme, or that it would be leaked to the Telegraph and the Sun laced with the usual rhetoric about «gold - plated pensions `.» (labour-uncut.co.uk)
One union source who hails from the more progressive wing of labor (the trades tend to lean more conservative), deemed his private sector colleagues «the Benedict Arnolds,» adding: «Building trades are not really a union, they are enablers of their employers.» (nystateofpolitics.com)