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.
Small- and mid-market owners may well figure the only path to doing it goes through the union bargaining table.
The players at the bargaining table have changed since the last contract talks.
He's playing only to the polls, not to Congress, not to get the other side to the bargaining table.
We will advance their cause at the bargaining table, on the picket line and in the halls of Congress.
The obvious place to deal with such issues is around the bargaining table.
Only when those checkbooks become susceptible to a Tonya Harding-esque beating will either side rush back to the bargaining table.
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Unions spend their members' dues to help elect the politicians who sit on the other side of the bargaining table.
The Sudanese government hasn't exactly rushed to the bargaining table to forge a new peace, neither have Darfur's many rebel groups.
One possibility is that unions without enough economic power to bring employers to the bargaining table could become subject specific organizations.
To ensure that the Japanese side returns to the bargaining table in 2001, the Americans have insisted on a trigger mechanism.
The union said in a brief update that wages, health care and pensions top the list of issues at the bargaining table.
Prior to the NLRA, unions gained power by applying enough economic pressure through collective action to bring employers to the bargaining table.
And as powerful political machines, they can help to pick the people who sit on the other side of the bargaining table.
This is important to remember when Democrats go to 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.
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.
David Boies, the owners' lead lawyer in the antitrust case, said the league was ready to return to the collective bargaining table as quickly as possible.
Why not go back to the bargaining table and try to figure out another way to pay for it that you could get some traction on?
"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.
And his company brings more to the bargaining table than just software -- existing relationships with cable providers and TiVO in the US bolster what i.
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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.
"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.
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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The main concern of union organizers and proponents of the NLRA with this proposal would be how to gain power and get employers to 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.
Hopefully the Post Office will come to the bargaining table.
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