Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden workers announced on Friday that garden management had made its last pay increase proposal earlier that morning, which the workers' union will vote on next week. Friday's meeting marked the final negotiation between Lewis Ginter management and workers, according to the union, in what has been a years-long process. The union has called this an "insulting and unlivable wage offer" that regressed from the garden's earlier offer of 75 cents more an hour. Representatives of Lewis Ginter management did not respond to requests for comment by the time of this article's publication. In a July 31 email to garden members, Lewis Ginter CEO Brian Trader said that the concert cancellations have caused the garden to lose "tens of thousands of dollars in revenue."