Responding to Ms. DeMoro's assertion that the union had entered a sweetheart deal in which it would bargain halfheartedly, Mr. Regan noted that after unionizing 550 nurses at a Catholic Healthcare hospital in Lorain, Ohio, the service employees staged two contentious strikes in an effort to obtain a contract.
"We've obviously had some very contentious strikes and labor disputes over the years, but this is something of a different nature," Liebman said by telephone the other day while taking a break from packing up her office in downtown Washington after her term ended.
As head of the National War Labor Board, he oversaw more than 100 disputes a week; as a mediator for New York City's Labor Relations Division, he settled a contentious newspaper strike and several transit strikes.
It is the case of the "Shrewsbury 24", the two-dozen construction workers arrested five months after a contentious 1972 strike.
A lifelong socialist, Knapp supported the contentious miners' strike of 1984 and successfully managed a series of one-day railway stoppages in 1989 as well as a 15-week signalmen's strike in 1994.
Murphy's teammates also relied on his judgment, electing him as their representative to the NFL Players Association in five consecutive seasons, a span that included the contentious 1982 strike.
We "met", if that's the correct term, on a cricket forum where his closely reasoned yet contentious posts struck an immediate chord with me.
In contrast to the contentious tone struck last year by President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Russian representative to the conference this year, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei B. Ivanov, made his nation's recent record of economic success the focus of his largely positive address, pointing out that Russia's economy had grown by 80percentt in the last nine years.
In 2012, more than 68percentt of voters agreed to water down California's contentious "Three Strikes Law," which put anyone with three felonies, violent or nonviolent, in prison for life.
