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.

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For Addison Fischer, a board member and cofounder of Planet Heritage Foundation, the shared knowledge around the table and collective funding is critical to the success of the group.

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Dems will return when collective bargaining is off the table.

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"There is a collective agreement around the Cabinet table that we have to deal with the deficit, that we have to continue the action necessary to get the nation's finances back on the right track, " he told BBC Radio 4's The World at One.

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Prior to the NLRA, unions gained power by applying enough economic pressure through collective action to bring employers to the bargaining table.

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It is the second result that is the surprise, and this has to do with the one single predictor that a particular group will have high collective intelligence: at least half the chairs around the table should be occupied by women.

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The result was a collective is-he-joking stare from the rest of the table, as if I'd said Nickelback was my favorite band.

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