ASEAN, and weaken its ability to bargain collectively with outsiders.

ECONOMIST: Trade in Asia

As a UW-Madison employee, an aspect of ending the ability of employees to bargain collectively has not been covered in any forums that I have read, yet I think is crucial to understanding a major power play currently going on sub rosa.

FORBES: Recall In Wisconsin?

Generation Health simplifies the selection of genetic tests for physicians, it helps explain the test and its results to patients, it safeguards data, and it drives a hard bargain with testing centers through its ability to direct large volumes of tests their way.

FORBES: Genetic Testing, Electric Cars, and Powerful Intermediaries

Right to work laws similarly impose artificial restrictions on voluntary association and the ability of employers and employees to bargain.

FORBES: The Economics of Unions

Learning to negotiate a hard-bargain without being ingratiating and without trading power for sympathy is not beyond the ability of women.

FORBES: Negotiation is a Skill and Neither Gender is "Better"

Vague plans for a fiscal union seem to depend on a bargain in which Germany agrees to transfer money to debtor countries but the debtors agree to limits on their ability to run a deficit.

ECONOMIST: Market discipline works when other controls fail