The union at this time has presented their entire economic and language proposals and the employers are refusing to negotiate over economic issues claiming that their language proposals must be dealt with first.  The bargaining committee made every effort to begin the process of eliminating many of our own proposals but the employers showed no interest in moving the process along. One of the committee members summed it up best when they stated: “it sure is funny that the employers are the last to show up to the negotiations and always the first to leave.”