With bargaining on a new national contract set to begin later this year, Zetsche's message to the UAW was clear: Accept new terms, or Chrysler could be sold.
By repealing the mandatory good faith bargaining and exclusive representation restrictions, businesses would no longer be required to recognize majority supported unions, bargain on specific topics, and cover a complete bargaining unit with a union contract.
Dr. ZULLO: Although there's some advantage to being a union which specializes in an industry, the process of forming a union and then bargaining and getting a decent contract, there's quite a few sort of universal concepts that apply across all different occupation types.
If a contract seems close, bargaining can continue without a strike.
The players at the bargaining table have changed since the last contract talks.
The United Autoworkers Union will probably not consider bigger concessions until 2007 when it is due to return to the bargaining table to renegotiate its four-year contract.
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Because all grievances that stem from drug-related cases must be handled under the collective bargaining agreement, unlike in a regular breach of contract suit, the employer can not simply single out individualized clauses in the employee agreement as a bonafide legal argument to get out of the contract.
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On December 19th, after five months of bargaining, United Auto Workers Local 833 accepted a contract offered by Kohler.
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Did his contract violate any specific term of the collective bargaining agreement?
Saban's formidable bargaining skills were earlier used in exercising a put option in the contract with Fox that required Murdoch to buy him out.
As the contract deadline nears, a target company will be picked, and then the serious bargaining starts with that company.
As the UAW heads to the bargaining table with the big three automakers this week, a separate team of negotiators is gearing up for tough contract talks with the Detroit casinos on the 30th.
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