Sentence examples for bargain proposal from inspiring English sources

The Obama-Boehner Grand Bargain proposal was not necessarily an ideal compromise (plenty of people on both the right and the left disliked it), but at least it would have given us a single, comprehensive solution to our fiscal issues rather than the serial brinksmanship and dysfunction that we have now.

In May 2003, only a few months after Iran admitted the existence of its secret (but legal) nuclear program, former reformist Iranian President Mohammad Khatami sent the George W. Bush administration a "Grand Bargain" proposal.

The tax side of the Grand Bargain generally asks nothing of big corporations--typically Grand Bargain proposals include the idea of revenue neutral corporate tax reform and stays away from tax proposals aimed at restoring fair taxation for the 1percentt, like raising the capital gains rate, creating new high-income brackets or creating a financial transaction tax.

Labor issues dominated Friday, with the union criticizing a collective bargaining proposal by the owners.

"They call it the collective bargaining proposal, but I call it the back-in-time proposal," Mr. Snyder said in an interview.

Hours after the N.B.A. delivered its final collective bargaining proposal to the players union, the rumors and the rhetoric began to flow.

RUMBLINGS OF WORK STOPPAGE -- Expressing pessimism after reviewing N.B.A. owners' initial collective bargaining proposal, the director of the players' union said yesterday that the league could be heading toward a work stoppage after the 2004-5 season.

Mr. Little, the union official, charged that American had engaged in "unlawful direct dealing with the employees when it discussed its bargaining proposal with them" on Tuesday at Kennedy, "outside the presence and without the knowledge" of the union.

At a time when negotiating a halt to that buildup is imperative, Washington has inexplicably granted Pyongyang something it has long coveted -- a reduction in American troop levels -- instead of building those reductions into a bargaining proposal requiring constructive North Korean moves in return.

Members of the Aerospace Machinists union rejected a collective bargaining proposal, full of historic takeaways, by a margin of 2-1.

Walker's stalled collective bargaining proposal would require state workers to contribute 5.8percentt of their salaries toward pensions and double their health insurance contribution beginning April 1.