Sentence examples for contract modification from inspiring English sources
He said the Energy Department supported the contract modification.
BOEING CO., Chicago, has been awarded an $891.6 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for continued maintenance of the C-17 Globemaster cargo plane fleet.
The local groups, members of a citizens advisory council for the laboratory, said they feared that the contract modification would place the cleanup largely under the control of a private company with a powerful profit motive to rush forward.
Dr. Marburger and a top Bechtel official at the laboratory said the groups' criticisms were unfounded and based on a misunderstanding of the contract modification, which they said could actually save money that would then be available for cleanup.
Dr. Marburger said that after a year of negotiations, "many points of clarification remain to be addressed" before a contract modification expanding Bechtel's role in the cleanup could be completed.
The contract modification, which had been supported by the Energy Department, would have allowed Bechtel to earn up to three times the fees it receives under its current contract if it completed the cleanup by 2004 instead of 2006.
The union does not allow contract modifications that lower the value of a player's contract, and deferring payment would theoretically represent that.
Mr. Mulally's pay was one reason workers said Ford did not need additional concessions as they overwhelmingly voted down proposed contract modifications last fall.
Mr. Walkowicz, a worker at a Ford Motor Company plant in Dearborn, Mich., helped organize opposition to proposed contract modifications at Ford last fall.
While it is unclear just how those talks would lead to contract modifications, Mr. Zachar said they demonstrated "an admission by the union that the world of telecommunications is different than it was in 1997 or 1998".
If U.A.W. members at Ford Motor agree to contract modifications, as they are expected to do, the company will gain some of the benefits that General Motors and Chrysler needed bankruptcy reorganization to achieve.
