Word: reopens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 down by the workers. Said GM's Warren: "I'm not sure that all of our union members understand what it means to our business and what it ultimately means to them...
...private scrip, Roosevelt's financial experts worked late into the night to patch together a rescue bill. That bill effectively took the U.S. off the gold standard and thus promised easier money in days to come; it also authorized the Treasury to inspect all closed banks and gradually reopen them with various guarantees of solvency. The only copy of the bill was rushed to the House as soon as it reconvened at noon Thursday, and after half an hour of debate, there came cries of "Vote! Vote!" That vote
Tiny American Motors Corp. quietly became the first U. S. auto company to seek formally to reopen its labor contracts in November, when it asked its 16,000 hourly workers to make wage concessions that would save the company $150 million. The automaker, which has only 2% of the domestic market, has lost some $300 million over the past two years. While cuts in wages and benefits are important to restore General Motors and Ford to financial health, they could mean the survival of American Motors...
...suit requests the NLRB to force DiGiovanni to reopen Ferdinand's and the Ha'penny--restoring all fired employees to their former jobs with full back pay--and to take part in collective bargaining with the employees represented by Local...
Instead, it wants the right to reopen its contract when economic conditions improve. Meanwhile, truck-fleet owners have made headway, toward changes in work rules that would allow drivers to deliver their shipments directly to customers, rather than drop them at intermediate warehouses...