Sentence examples for as a lockout from inspiring English sources

The union is referring to the incident as a lockout.

The N.H.L. issued a new proposal to the players' association as a lockout looms next month.

In the Midwest, labor strife cost the Minnesota Orchestra its beloved music director, Osmo Vanska, who resigned as a lockout of musicians entered a second year.

There may quickly be pressure brought to bear on the N.F.L. lockout, as Judge David Doty considers the players' request for $707 million in damages in the case involving the N.F.L.'s hoarding television revenues as a lockout slush fund.

But it is more likely that the players will make a stand this season to avert the rules implementation and the ceding to the owners of the timing of a work stoppage, as in a lockout.

But they may also borrow from the National Basketball Association's labor strategy and declare a lockout as soon as the season ends.

The first relies on the Norris-La Guardia Act, which in 1932 prohibited the court from issuing an injunction from a lockout, as long as the case " 'involves or grows out of' a labor dispute, a test that is clearly satisfied here," the brief says.

So as long as the N.H.L. has a lockout, I will play only here".

Although he would not classify it as his last, best offer, Commissioner David Stern called it "virtually the best shot we think we have to both demonstrate to the players our good faith and our desire to go as far as we can to avoid a lockout".

A lockout is legal as long as a collective bargaining relationship exists between the owners and players.

He described a lockout as the only recourse of the employers in the face of an expanding strike.