The wage agreement of 6.4 percent for the year was higher than some had hoped.

Respect for national traditions in relation to wage agreements will have to cost whatever it costs.

The union would strike on February 21 if no acceptable wage agreement was forthcoming.

This also includes adherence to the wage agreements in force where the principal is located.

Ambiguous wage agreements led to many of these disputes.

We must be open to new models, for example the introduction of reduced working hours into wage agreements for single parents.

Three weeks ago, when the workers were asked to sign new wage agreements, Ms. Dillon saw her chance.

We must take account of the fact that there are differences between collective agreements and wage agreement systems in the Member States.

Those eight unions already have negotiated wage agreements.

In most cases, costly collective wage agreements and schemes for better conditions at work fall by the wayside.

Those that were employed were forced to accept longer hours, lower wages, and district wage agreements.

"If employers agree to all kinds of wage agreements that they cannot afford, you have huge moral hazard problems.

Free movement of labour and enhanced flexibility of wage agreements needs to advance significantly.

(In the metalworking industry no national wage agreement for manual workers has been possible since 1974.)

Labour actively took the decision not to better regulate for agency workers, and to not introduce living wage agreements.

He led negotiations of a wage agreement between Petrograd metalworkers and factory owners in 1917.

The dispute is over staffing, training and what the firefighters' unions say are breaches of wage agreements.

The town had not reached a wage agreement with the Civil Service Employee Association.

Workers are fighting to secure a collective wage agreement that will enable good, secure jobs to be preserved.

In return for a moderate wage agreement, employers might also increase their investment in human capital or recruit more workers and trainees.

"It would be very critical if the steelworkers' wage agreement should be the benchmark for the 1992 pay round," he warned.

Mercedes recently signed a wage agreement with its German workers that cuts labor costs by 500 million euros ($616 million) a year.

But this wage agreement, which covered only the existing unionized plants, was rejected by the AA executive board.

Businesses could not negotiate trucking fees, port charges and real-estate commissions, or individual wage agreements with their workers.

There is no minimum wage agreement, no extension of unemployment insurance benefits for those who lost their jobs as a result of Sept. 11.