Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with Japanese imports. The union, though, was unwilling to consider benefit reductions large enough to make those car price cuts. It refused to consider a drop in the hourly wage of $10.19, which makes up the bulk of the estimated $19.65 total compensation package. Fraser was also forced to bargain with the knowledge that any settlement would have to be approved by militant rank-and-file workers, who seemed unwilling to make major concessions. Two weeks ago, union members voted 57% to 43% to reopen the talks, and there was a good possibility that any settlement would have been voted...
...British-built Marecs B maritime communications satellite. In fact, comsats, as they are known in space jargon, should continue to be Ariane's major and most lucrative cargo through the decade. Even at a cost of nearly $50 million apiece, excluding the launch fee, comsats can be a bargain, since they make it possible to transmit all sorts of information, from television pictures to computer data, to virtually any place on earth...
...always threatens to burst into a conflagration of libidos, and the only firemen in sight are the seen-it-all plainclothesmen of the vice squad. They know every hooker they bust will be out on bail, back on her back within an hour and any felonious punk can plea-bargain grand-theft-auto down to a citation for speeding. The vice squad is not expected to put out the fire, just to keep it down to a dark smolder...
...push the January unemployment rate above the postwar record of 9%. Faced with the wholesale loss of jobs on the shop floor or in airplane cabins, labor has made job security, not pay, its primary concern. At the same time, businesses suffering from sluggish sales have begun to bargain away some traditional management prerogatives in exchange for cuts in labor costs...
Ford was not part of the initial secret negotiations between the auto-workers and GM, and refused to accept their agreement. Ford in separate talks is said to be willing to bargain on the issue of subcontracted work that it gives to non-U.A.W. or foreign suppliers, which is one of the union's chief worries. It also put forward what the company touts as an attractive profit-sharing plan. Said one leading U.A.W. official: "There are some totally new concepts relating to job security." In return, Ford wants reductions in the number of paid days...