Word: pact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most important settlements in this year's negotiating calendar, the United Steel Workers last week won a contract that will raise labor costs of the nation's ten biggest steel firms 40% over the next three years. The pact dims any hope that the moderation that marked labor agreements last year -and kept some brake on inflation -will continue. It represents a high price for labor peace: bargaining was conducted under a year-old experimental pact that prohibits the union from striking, gives it a guaranteed minimum increase and the right to bargain for more, and pledges both...
...contract is the most generous ever negotiated by the U.S.W., a pacesetting union for all American labor, and will undoubtedly spur a substantial rise in steel prices. Steelmen had been talking about a 7% to 9% price increase even before they agreed to the new pact...
...deciding factors in this year's race may be the fact that Carl Yastrzemski's three-year, $500,000 pact ended last season. Yaz will have to produce if he wants that kind of cash back. And many people think he does and he will...
Rupnik said that as the second largest military force among the Warsaw Pact nations, the Czech army, had it been mobilized, might have deterred an invasion, even though it could probably not have defended against an actual...
...bottle, each afraid to strike first be cause each is afraid to die. They also know there should be a marriage of convenience." Indeed, like many crises, the Massachusetts confrontation is fostering a hesitant dialogue between the warring factions. About a year ago, Wood and Silber made a quiet pact to talk less and compromise more. Silber and other private administrators agreed not to push for a raise in public tuition. This paved the way for a significant agreement recently reached by key representatives of public and private institutions: Wood and other public officials will join private educators in pressing...