Word: contract
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...traditional handshake that opens contract talks between the United Auto Workers and the big car companies has often seemed a bit forced. But when U.A.W. President Owen Bieber faced off across the bargaining table last week with Alfred Warren, the chief negotiator for General Motors, they had a powerful incentive to stay on friendly terms. Both sides know all too well that the share of the American car market captured by foreign competitors has risen from 23.5% to 28.3% since 1984. The Toyotas and Hyundais of the world would like nothing better than a U.S. auto strike when the U.A.W...
...rival by $2.99 billion to $1.9 billion. The average base pay of Ford's workers, meanwhile, has not gone up since 1984, when wages increased 2.25%, to $12.82 an hour. The union will feel more than justified in demanding bigger pay hikes from Ford in the next three-year contract. And GM's workers will want equal treatment, even if their company's profits are shrinking...
Workers and management Saturday settled a contract dispute that threatened to delay construction for Harvard's $21.6 million Quad renovations project...
...last week, the competition was weighty indeed. A typical bid package ran to nearly 20,000 pages, weighed three tons and filled scores of boxes. In one competition a consortium headed by Rockwell International and another led by McDonnell Douglas are battling for a $2 billion to $3 billion contract to build the space station's framework, air locks and guidance and communications systems...
Faced with the chance to sign a record contract that would cut his friends in his band loose, Ritchie signs on for the sake of his family. But within days, the former Ricardo Valenzuela has cut his family name loose...