Sentence examples for divisive contract from inspiring English sources

The appointment comes in the midst of a divisive contract battle between the city and the principal's union.

This M.T.A.-Pataki demand is a stalking horse for attacking the pensions of all public workers, and for dividing and conquering the T.W.U. and then other public-worker unions by having a divisive contract with different benefits for new workers versus existing workers.

We saw the most nasty and divisive contract negotiations last year between the district and the union.

But both sides said there was much work to be done, with the negotiations more divisive than in past contract talks.

The new government's White Paper on Health, published at the end of 1997, announced the intention to 'modernise' the NHS: 'In a national health service, the current mix of national and local contracts is divisive and costly.

With the State Department reportedly threatening to withhold further contracts until the divisive Prince left, the company was sold to a set of private equity investors in 2010 and renamed Academi.

Several months ago, the issue of contracts had been a divisive one between the team and the federation as players were given what amounted to a take-it-or-leave-it opportunity to sign.

Yet Nike has signed Mr. Kaepernick, perhaps the most divisive American athlete of his generation, to a lucrative new contract and will produce branded apparel with his name and image.

But after a long, divisive debate, Los Angeles finally voted to push forward with a contract that will place 150 public pay toilets on city streets, paid for with sales of advertising.

The contract talks are not expected to be particularly divisive -- at least, not in the traditional sense: Industry management and union leadership are increasingly speaking from the same script, intent on preserving the peace that has fostered the turnaround.

Union leaders reached a contract agreement with the M.T.A. on Dec. 27 after a divisive three-day strike, but the union's rank and file turned it down in January.