Sentence examples for bargaining capacity from inspiring English sources

Oliver said this meant that enterprise contracts could reduce award conditions and would "further diminish the bargaining capacity of workers".

Because of the limited bargaining capacity of European countries in that period, the Paris Convention closely followed the recommendations of American industry groups in indemnifying suppliers.

"What sort of bargaining capacity do they have against a multinational retailer?" Oliver said it was "highly likely the government will push for some form of industrial relations reform" in the next term.

Multiple pipelines from the Caspian region and Central Asia, such as those pumping Turkmen gas and Kazakh oil lines to China and the BTC to the Mediterranean, have increased the energy exporters' bargaining capacity.

Considering that under the GI the farmers are supposed to sell to processors within the GI (otherwise they will not get for their raw material the higher value that the GI worth), it is easy to conclude that in such cases farmers can paradoxically find themselves in a captive position with an even worsened bargaining capacity.

Communities with higher levels of civic engagement, economic bargaining power and capacity for collective action tend to fare better than others in minimizing environmental harms.

The combination of these factors has served to limit women's agency, bargaining power and capacity to spontaneously self-organize (Desai and Joshi 2013, Evans and Nambiar 2013).

It should mean workers have greater bargaining power - and therefore greater capacity to bid up their wages.

He'd given a great speech, but he'd also struck an implicit bargain with his audience: his capacity to understand race, his willingness to reassure black people that he comprehends the nuances of our difficulties, would substitute, at least for a time, for tangible evidence of his work to address them.

The 2010/11 season is unlikely to be different, but don't expect the same terrific bargains in Canada as last year; capacity to Calgary has been cut back, so tour operators won't have lots of airline seats that must be sold.

Cable & Wireless: C&W bought MCI networks in 1998 and is now buying dark fiber in Europe, giving the it immediate installed capacity at a bargain price.