Today building workers at the Co-op City housing development and the RiverBay Corp. sat down to resume contract negotiations for the first time since the week-long worker strike ended. Unfortunately, they don't seem to be going smoothly. RiverBay Corp. spokesman Fred Winters said, "32 BJ negotiators were not prepared for substantive discussion and the session ended after about ten minutes," suggesting that it might take a while before the two see eye-to-eye. Local 32 BJ are seeing a "multi-year agreement that maintains their family health care coverage and provides cost of living wage increases," and still maintain that RiverBay Corp. locked them out when negotiations broke down the last time.
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