This corporate cash hoard now becomes the carrot in GM's upcoming collective-bargaining negotiations, beginning in mid-July.
We may gain a little more clarity from the upcoming collective bargaining negotiations but I doubt it.
Which is why the real bare knuckles fighting in the current collective bargaining negotiations in these three sports is among owners.
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The 800 pound gorilla in the current NFL collective bargaining negotiations between the players and owners is the growing revenue disparity among the richest and poorest NFL teams.
GeopoliticalMotives: According to published reports, the company has been accused of using U.S. sanctions as a bargaining tool in negotiations.
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So too will the unions involved, for both sides will be hoping to claim popular support and use it as a bargaining tool as negotiations continue.
But since the biggest Chinese steelmaker, Baosteel, had only a 6% share of its home market (Nippon Steel, by contrast, controlled a third of the Japanese market), it lacked the bargaining power for negotiations behind closed doors.
Sunni leaders are expected to use their influence with the insurgents as a bargaining chip in negotiations over a new government, but Mutlaq says the insurgents are watching, waiting to see if politicians can achieve what they haven't so far, an American withdrawal and a greater grasp on power.
Understandably, the U.S. government has hoped for a middle course of sanctions, negotiations and bargaining that would remove the problem without the ugly consequences.
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Working as a bloc and adhering to their pre-election promises might either guarantee them a stronger bargaining position in the negotiations to form a government or public credibility, which will pay off in the next elections.
This would significantly reduce the influence that Google would have over the crown jewels, and allow Samsung a bargaining chip in any negotiations, and ultimately an escape route away from Google if relations soured between the companies.
Under the influence of this optimistic view, U.S. foreign policy has in recent months come increasingly to be based on the tacit and largely unexamined assumption that, under Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union is on its way to becoming a more reliable bargaining partner in international negotiations and a more "normal" participant in international life.
More than negotiations over the collective bargaining agreement, the debate over television blackouts may come to be the legacy of the 2010 season.
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But given all of the positioning and blustering by the NFL and the NFLPA since the lockout was initiated in March of this year, have the negotiations for a collective bargaining agreement ever really been as adversarial as they have been made out to be?
Both the NHLPA and the owners have been in heavy negotiations about a new collective bargaining agreement.
The National Hockey League has a unique penchant for self-destructiveness in the way it conducts negotiations for a new Collective Bargaining Agreement.
On Thursday afternoon it was announced that the NFL and NFLPA would extend their negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement by 24 hours.
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"I don't see why agriculture always has to be the bargaining chip in Europe's trade negotiations... especially when a certain number of South American countries, notably Argentina, are putting new protectionist tariffs on food imports, " he said.
Nearly a month after negotiations for a new collective-bargaining agreement collapsed, lawyers for the NFL and the league's players association will square off in court Wednesday in a crucial hearing that will help determine whether there will be a 2011 season.
Mr Salmond envisages privately that he would need bargaining counters in the event of cross-border negotiations in the aftermath of an independence Yes vote.
And their complex bargaining relationship with the government is paralleled by the complicated negotiations over additional union rights in the private sector.
That's probably why he's playing serious hardball during the current tense round of negotiations over the league's collective-bargaining agreement, the result being a 72-hour postponement of the free-agent shopping season that was to have begun on Monday.
Lew, who previously served as Obama's budget director, often clashed with House Speaker John Boehner and other top Republicans in 2011 debt-limit negotiations and just-concluded "fiscal cliff" bargaining.
But some House members resisted the idea idea of purely informal negotiations, because they feared they might lose some leverage in the bargaining.
The restrictions on collective bargaining, he claims, are needed to force through the other changes without protracted negotiations.
This is particularly important in intra- and inter-governmental negotiations because even a hint of bad faith can cause backlash from your bargaining partners and instability in global economic markets.
Standing in the lobby of the MTA's Lower Manhattan offices, Transport Workers Union Local 100 President John Samuelsen accused the authority of bargaining in "horrific" bad faith and said he and his team walked out of negotiations previously scheduled for that day.
Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.
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