Debates need to take place about the pros and cons about national pay bargaining.
The Bank of England's successful squeeze on inflation has also helped to stabilise pay bargaining.
Like much of the Budget, the chancellor's decision to press ahead with local public sector pay bargaining was heavily leaked.
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The unions also oppose Tory plans to end central pay bargaining for teachers and to allow schools to pay according to merit.
The chancellor has told government departments they can move to local pay bargaining when the overall public sector salary freeze begins to end next year.
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The new job conditions would see staff pay taken out of the national pay bargaining system, so pay will be decided at a local level.
Breaking up national pay bargaining would be extremely complicated, and would create its own problems, particularly where you have boundaries between two rates of pay.
Germany's system of centralised pay bargaining, under which unions and bosses set wages and hours across whole industries, makes matters worse by compressing wage differentials.
Proposals to end the practice of national pay bargaining have prompted fears that some workers will find themselves on the wrong side of a North-South divide.
The new terms include a reduction in full sickness pay entitlement, freezing the performance related pay scheme and replacing the use of a national pay bargaining system with a local one.
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As I say, the actual aim of abolishing national pay bargaining is not so that wages can be reduced in poor areas: it is so that they can be increased in rich areas.
The power of trade unions has been reduced, national pay bargaining and other labour-market rigidities scrapped, and cuts in tax rates and stricter rules for claiming unemployment benefits have improved the incentive to work.
Though none of my sources like the idea of lying to an employer, they all agree that some of his advice has merit, like demonstrating to an employer that you are valued by other employers and using severance pay as a bargaining chip.
Given the trivial size of their claim, few victims pay attention to settlement bargaining.
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As negotiators everywhere know, the first side to disclose all that it is willing to sacrifice (or pay) loses considerable bargaining power.
Collective-bargaining agreements provide pay and benefits that are generous even by federal employee standards.
The integration of China and other emerging economies into the world trading system has, in effect, more than doubled the global labour force, and by curbing workers' bargaining power it has restrained pay demands in most developed economies in recent years.
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Much more likely, is that the incumbent telcos want to use the authority of the ITU to force content providers to pay, so the telcos will increase their bargaining power at the expense of everyone else.
The high court in past cases has ruled nonunion public sector workers cannot be forced to pay for union activities not directly related to collective bargaining.
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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But that leaves all the rest of the employees who will pay lower taxes simply because they belong to a collective bargaining unit.
Denmark's economy is operating at close to capacity, and there are fears that Sweden's unions will demand inflationary pay rises in this winter's round of collective bargaining.
The Italian wage-bargaining process allows workers to claim for extra pay if inflation turns out to be higher than expected, says Gareth Claase, an economist at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
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?
They reasoned the best way to approach the coming crunch was to pay as little as possible so that the company would have more assets and bargaining power when it entered Chapter 11.
The solution may be going to a rookie pay scale, something Commissioner Roger Goodell has hinted bringing up in the next collective bargaining agreement in 2010.
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.
There is no collective bargaining agreement so there is no salary cap, no rules for determining rookie base pay, the rules for free agents, the protections for veterans and the related priorities among those three groups of employees.
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In the decision Thursday, Second Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes held that the union representing the City College of New York could not force David Seidemann to pay dues for "ideological" activity not related to the union's core job of collective bargaining.
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