Sentence examples for employee bargaining from inspiring English sources

Employee bargaining power is decreasing.

That would be -- with the consent of employee bargaining units -- to reopen existing contracts.

Larry Dorman, a spokesman for the state employee bargaining coalition, said there were several details that will require further talks.

The state pioneered many social reforms: It was the first to introduce workers' compensation, in 1911; unemployment insurance, in 1932; and public employee bargaining, in 1959.

Mr. Dorman, the spokesman for the state employee bargaining coalition, said this year's talks "have been more professional, more cordial than those with the Rowland administration".

What is missing today is employee bargaining power, which unionization provides, so that the growth in labor productivity flows more to wages and salary and less to executive salaries and shareholder returns.

Harvard's Theda Skocpol has found that the best predictor of whether a state legislature voted to curb public-employee bargaining in 2011 was not public opinion within the state but whether the Koch-backed group Americans for Prosperity, which was pushing the issue, had a paid staffer there.

But Democrats criticized the legislation, saying it effectively eviscerated public employees' bargaining rights and would make it harder for them to stay in the middle class.

Dan Livingston, chief negotiator for the 45,000 member state employees bargaining unit, said the layoffs will save only about $17 million in the state's two year budget cycle.

Unions plan to run intensive state and local campaigns that go beyond their ongoing effort to recall Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, who pushed through legislation to curb public employees' bargaining rights.

In Wisconsin and Ohio, Republican lawmakers argued that public sector unions had grown too powerful and that it was vital to weaken public employees' bargaining rights, so as to give state and local governments flexibility to help erase their budget deficits.