>That day, they provided the details of their offers to ThedaCare management and requested a counteroffer. They received no response until December 28, when they were told by Interim Director of Cardiovascular Service Line Ron Schumaker that ThedaCare would not be making any counteroffer. As he put it, the short term expense of retaining the radiology technologists was not worth the long term expense, because if ThedaCare paid to keep these employees, it would have to offer raises to everyone.

So they literally made the decision to not try to keep their staff because of $. Then made the decision to spend money in the lawsuit. But they also spent money going to the media which backfired on them. Afterall, everyone can see they were lying.

Management clearly not performing to satisfactory levels.