Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...city refuses to bargain collectively, "then they only have one legal recourse," Sullivan said adding, "they can go to the stage labor relations board and try to convince them that the city has engaged in unfair labor practices...
...membership took a vote, and they ratified the contract," City Manager James L. Sullivan said last night. "We do not intend to bargain further with the union," he said, although he added that the city might consider "reformulating" the scheduling of pay raises in the contract if doing so did not increase the size of the contract...
...Pershing II and ground-launched cruise missiles capable of striking Soviet territory. That force was aimed at countering the expanding Soviet arsenal of comparable weapons that already face Western Europe, which include 50 Backfire bombers and 200 medium-range SS-20 missiles. The Kremlin refused all offers to bargain with the Western allies on mutual reduction of intermediate-range systems unless NATO rescinded its deployment decision...
...Francisco-based Hughes AirWest, got the line aloft by leasing three ten-year-old DC-9 jets from TWA and daubing them with rainbow colors. Uniforms for flight attendants came off the peg rather than being designer-made. No meals are served aloft, yet drinks are a bargain at $1 each. Midway's nonunionized ticket agents cheerfully help load bags or straighten up the departure lounge when necessary. But the real attraction is the fares: 30% to 50% below normal coach rates...
...Florida, whose mythic allure and down-to-sand prices make it a powerful competitor of the Spanish resorts that have long attracted the working-class English vacationer. But today there are few places in the world where a lad and his lass from Lancashire can get a better vacation bargain than in what some call in jest "Blackpool in the Sun," after the blue-collar British vacation spot of less affluent times. Two weeks at a Miami Beach hotel, round-trip air fare included, can cost as little as $470. One British tour firm, Intasun, alone has reserved...