Often, the stakeholder with the green- or red-light authority is not at the bargaining table.
"You couldn't wait until you were at the bargaining table, " explains Benjamin Levin, the former deputy minister.
We're hopeful that our unions remain at the bargaining table so that we can reach a consensual deal.
The players at the bargaining table have changed since the last contract talks.
We will advance their cause at the bargaining table, on the picket line and in the halls of Congress.
The union said in a brief update that wages, health care and pensions top the list of issues at the bargaining table.
The class-action lawyers' own discovery, mixed with forthcoming findings from state and national regulators, should put major investments banks back at the bargaining table.
"Everything the UAW has fought for at the bargaining table is under attack, " Gettelfinger told 1, 400 delegates gathered at the UAW's constitutional convention in Las Vegas.
Deepak Malhotra is a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of Negotiation Genius: How to Overcome Obstacles and Achieve Brilliant Results at the Bargaining Table and Beyond.
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Despite efforts by the Guild, most reality shows aren't covered under the current contracts, making them attractive programming options and providing networks leverage at the bargaining table.
But as scripted television sheds viewers and work jurisdiction to other genres (like reality) and media (like the Web), they continue to lose leverage at the bargaining table.
There is, of course, a catch: the rate is for one year only, which means come this time next year the two will be back at the bargaining table.
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And while many show-runners initially vowed not to cross the picket line, some will soon or have already returned to work in a non-writing capacity, thereby lessening the guild's leverage at the bargaining table.
And here are Mr. Gettelfinger's remarks last Friday on PBS's "NewsHour": "The men and women of the UAW are the only ones that have been at the bargaining table making concessions, " the UAW chief said.
Negotiators for the players' union and Major League Baseball will stay at the bargaining table until late Thursday night, trying to resolve increases in revenue sharing and the level of a luxury tax on high-payroll teams that would slow salary increases.
The snag is Mr Khatami's constitutional weakness: if he is to get to the bargaining table at all, he needs to be helped there.
"It is a credit to both sides of the bargaining table that workers' interests at Hawker were given the respect they deserve, " he said in a statement.
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