"When it comes to Davis-Bacon and project labor agreements, that's what puts food on our table, " said Jack Kittley, the political director for District Council 9 of the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades.
Some reports have cast the breakdown of the talks as mutual, while others have said it was the Beast and its backer, Barry Diller, that left the table first, possibly at the urging of former GE chairman Jack Welch.