Sentence examples for first round of contract from inspiring English sources

This week, the automakers kicked off the first round of contract negotiations with the United Automobile Workers since the government bailout.

That failure is now being felt at the bargaining table.But there were still smiles and handshakes last month, as the UAW and Detroit's Big Three firms began their first round of contract talks since 1999.

For instance, the "strike price" for the first round of contracts for difference will not be set until 2013, and a "delivery plan" for implementing them will come into force in mid-2014.

CPA will then award its first round of contracts later this spring.With continued funding over the next three years, Alan Lloyd, chairman of the California Air Resources Board (and a co-chairman of the collaborative with Dr Samuelsen), expects fuel cells to be generating at least 500 megawatts of power across the state.

But its chief executive, Bruce R. Lakefield, warned that the airline was facing a significant loss in the second half of 2004 unless its employees granted a third round of contract concessions.

US Airways chief executive, David N. Siegel, has used Southwest's imminent arrival as a rallying cry in his bid to wrest a third round of contract concessions from his airline's unions.

Nasa awarded about $50m in its first round of CCDev contracts, and it plans to substantially increase this funding next year to $850m.

Today's launch was the fifth of 10 Cygnus supply missions ordered by NASA in the first round of COTS contracts.

The first round of CRS contracts (CRS-1) was awarded back in 2008 to Orbital ATK for their Cygnus vehicle and to SpaceX for their Dragon vehicle.

It would seem now that finally Big Oil is going to get its due after years of waiting, with the Iraqi Oil Ministry set to announce the winners of the first round of service contracts offered by Baghdad on June 29 and June 30.

The first round of NextSTEP contracts, announced in 2015, gave seven companies money to develop space habitats that would support a four-person crew in lunar orbit for 60 days.