The last six years have yielded several big exchange unions, including the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's purchases of the Chicago Board of Trade and Nymex Holdings and the Singapore exchange's proposed acquisition of the Australian Stock Exchange.
But critics accused supervisors who approved the pact--Chuck Smith, Jim Silva and Cynthia P. Coad--of pandering to labor unions in exchange for union support last year to fight an anti-airport ballot measure.
In exchange, the union said, it received assurances that league producers would send more shows with union actors on the road, rather than licensing non-Equity tours to producers who are not members of the theater league and who use cheaper, less experienced actors to recreate touring versions of Broadway shows.
In exchange, the union yielded on the industry's insistence on a five-year contract instead of the three-year agreement the union had sought.
In exchange, the union received an unusual promise: port operators pledged to share the fruits of the new automation.
But in exchange the union would have to agree to an abbreviated negotiating period followed by binding arbitration.
In the end the regime agreed to legalization of Solidarity and in exchange the union agreed to participate in a snap election, to be held on Sun., June 4.
In exchange, the union agreed to try to help the owners find ways to reduce the cost of providing the workers' health benefits by $70 million annually starting in 2012.
Mr Simpson quite likes to portray himself as a firebrand, ready to tear up many of the no-strike agreements successfully negotiated by Sir Ken during the 1990s in exchange for union recogniton.
In exchange, the union dropped its longstanding demand that members who work at Radio City be covered under a standard Broadway contract, though any transfer of a show to Broadway from Radio City would be covered by a Broadway contract.
In exchange, the union agreed to a 28-month wage freeze.
