The government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Canadian Media Guild agreed to a broad contract settlement, ending a lockout of most of the network's English-language employees in time for the lucrative hockey season.
After the broad contract is worked out, the union will negotiate a separate contract to set work rules for the ports around New York Harbor, said Joseph C. Curto, president of the New York Shipping Association, which represents the companies that operate the cargo terminals.
Although most of Live Nation's business is in concerts and ticketing, it already has some interests in recorded music through broad contracts with a handful of superstar acts like Jay-Z and Shakira.
Instead of settling for a cut of CD sales, they increasingly offer artists broader contracts that encompass live music, merchandise and endorsement deals.
Some writer-producers have privately expressed nervousness that if they do not come to work in any capacity, they could be in violation of their broader contracts and risk losing their production deals, which are essentially retainers that typically pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per year.
On Monday, the court took away the automatic part, saying that the state's labor commissioner could "sever" the illegal action from the broader employment contract.
In addition to offering new protections for transgender federal employees, the executive order covers the broad federal contracting community -- some 24,000 companies employing 28 million workers, or about one-fifth of the nation's workforce.
The debt ceiling "deal" might postpone the next budget confrontation past the 2012 elections, but it will shred social programs that serve working people and are vital to key Democratic constituencies, while tearing apart the broader social contract between the government and its citizens.
The problem was resolved by giving the MRC broad research contracts, which effectively allowed the Council to continue its existing research programme.
If you believe that "God hath made one blood of all nations of the earth; and that interests which specialize and contract broad, liberal, cosmopolitan idea of universal brotherhood and equality are narrow and pernicious, then treat that truth as true" (VAJC, 194).
Last year, Accel raised $2.8 billion in fresh capital, while the broader industry contracted.
