Job security for several years even if it meant losing a week's (out of several) vacation, taking a minimal increase in earnings or contributing more money to your medical coverage and retirement
OR
Digging in your heels, refusing to concede anything, insisting on a pay increase, refusing to change your standard of living or lifestyle (i.e., selling your boat, vacation home or cabin, trading down from your sixty fifty thousand dollar pick up) in order to survive and chancing never being employed again at your job.