Leonel Arenas, a janitor from Guatemala and one of those on the hunger strike, said he needed an immediate raise.
The plan would have provided immediate raises of 15 to 22percenttoto match the industry pay leader, Delta Air Lines, before settling other issues.
Robert Linn, that union's chief negotiator, said that notwithstanding the deficit, his union would not scale back its demand for an immediate raise of at least 20percentt.
"The immediate raise to $6.75 and the escalator are poison pills to make sure this doesn't pass," said Assemblyman John J. Faso, the Republican minority leader.
Yale boasts that its proposal would give most clerical workers an immediate raise of 14percentt, partly because their old contract expired in January 2002.
Yale says it has offered the university's largest union, representing 2,900 clerical workers, raises of 44percentt over the life of a six-year agreement, including immediate raises of 14percentt.
At United Airlines, the 10,500 pilots have won an immediate raise of 21.5percentt or more to make up for lagging wages, and that does not include annual wage raises, totaling 16percentt over four years.
The original idea has since been switched, giving the Reverse Rosenkranz Double: after an opening bid, an overcall and a response, an immediate raise to two of the overcaller's suit guarantees a top honor — ace, king or queen — in that suit, but a double shows support without a top honor.
The observation by FTIR indicated that there was transition in absorption for during cooling where the absorption abruptly rose up at certain temperature and ended immediate raise at a low temperature.
Lieutenant General Émile Janssens, the Force Publique commander, wrote during a meeting of soldiers that 'Before independence=After Independence', pouring cold water on the soldiers' desires for an immediate raise in their status.
