Sentence examples for failed bargaining from inspiring English sources
1.51pm: There's been more response to Gordon Brown's failed bargaining with the Americans over Gary McKinnon.
With the scope of the talks narrowed for now, on the table are ideas left over from past, failed bargaining: possible reductions in other programs — like farm subsidies, federal pensions, the Postal Service and unemployment insurance — and relatively minimal tax loophole closings, possibly as little as $55 billion.
Obama had offered to include that change, despite opposition by many Democrats, as part of earlier, failed bargaining with House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, over a larger deficit reduction agreement.
And the new deal does nothing to address the big issues that Mr. Obama and Mr. Boehner hoped to deal with in their failed "grand bargain" talks two weeks ago: booming entitlement spending and a tax code so complex that few defend it anymore.
The lawsuit contends that the special committee failed to bargain effectively.
In March, a state administrative labor-law judge found that the city had failed to bargain as required with its workers.
Since then, the league contends, the union has "failed to bargain in good faith" and threatened to decertify or disclaim interest in further representing the players.
In its filing with National Labor Relations Board, the league said the union's threat to decertify and its lawsuit challenging the legality of the lockout were evidence "that the Players Association has failed to bargain in good faith".
The N.F.L. filed an unfair labor practice charge against the players union Monday, alleging that the union has failed to bargain in good faith because, the league said, it plans to decertify.
The staff union, the Union of Union Representatives, has complained to the National Labor Relations Board, asserting that the S.E.I.U. has failed to bargain about the impact of the layoffs and has sought to dissolve the staff union by reducing its membership.
