By Matthew van Buren The Taos News
By STEVE SCHULTZE The Milwaukee County Board shot down a pay-freeze contract Wednesday with its largest union, a move that could set the stage for labor concessions -- or protracted legal wrangling.
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jon Geenen of the United Steelworkers (USW), +1-920-722- 7630
Parties often do not negotiate for contract terms. Instead, parties search for the products, terms, and contractual counterparties they desire. The traditional negotiation-centered view of contract leads courts to try to determine the meaning of the parties where no meaning was negotiated and to waste time determining the benefits of bargains that were never struck. Further, while courts have ample tools to validate specifically negotiated contract terms, they lack the tools to respond to searched-for terms. Although the law and literature have long recognized that there is a disconnect between the legal fictions of negotiation and the reality of contracting practice, no theory has emerged to replace fictional negotiation. Therefore, this Article develops a new search-oriented theory of...
State officials secretly negotiated a $170,000 TV advertising contract with Bray Cary, whose company owns four stations and a weekly business newspaper. After representatives of competitors saw the commercials on Cary's stations and complained, the Wise administration acquiesced and bought time worth a combined $41,450 at six other stations.
The union that represents the Bergen County Police Department gave back a nearly 10 percent raise to save the jobs of about 25 cops, union and county officials announced late Saturday in a joint statement. The County Police have negotiated a contract which reflects current standards, is fair and just for all concerned and, most importantly, saves Bergen County taxpayers over 2 million dollars," County Executive Kathleen Donovan said in the statement.
NORMAL - McLean County Unit 5 bus drivers and monitors have voted to join the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees union. The union will represent about 180 drivers and 60 monitors, who previously negotiated a contract themselves through a local meet and confer committee. They are responsible for transporting about 10,000 students daily to and from schools in Bloomington, Normal, Carlock, Hudson and Towanda.
Outcome Critical to Postal Service, Employees, Future WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --Although the contracts with the National Association of Letter Carriers, AFL-CIO (NALC) and the National Postal Mail Handlers Union, AFL-CIO (NPMHU) expired at midnight Sunday, Nov. 20, the Postal Service and the two unions agreed to extend the negotiations deadline until midnight, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011.The NALC represents more than 195,000 employees who work as letter carriers delivering mail primarily in urban areas. The NPMHU represents more than 45,000 employees who work in mail processing plants and Post Offices. Respectively, wages and benefits for NALC- and NPMHU-represented employees exceeded $15.7 billion and $3.5 billion last year. Should negotiations fail, a process beg...
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