Sentence examples for grant wage from inspiring English sources
Since then, Mr. Hargrove has been highly critical of the American union's decision to grant wage and benefit concessions to automakers, something the Canadian union has largely avoided.
If workers grant wage concessions, he has said, the pension plan, which is $4.5 billion shy of what it needs, might even survive.
Standard & Poor's cut the debt rating yesterday for Northwest Airlines, which has struggled to persuade its unions to grant wage and benefit concessions in line with those at other carriers.
One of those directors, Bruce R. Lakefield, became chief executive last spring, after his predecessor, David N. Siegel, was unable to persuade unions to grant wage and benefit cuts.
Meanwhile, the chief executive at Delta Air Lines, Gerald Grinstein, pressed the union's 8,500 pilots to grant wage and benefit cuts, but the pilots' union said it might put off negotiations until closer to the time when its contract expires next year.
"You have got to have the pilots, but essentially the pilots are saying, 'We're just like the machinists".' The pilots' union, which like the machinists' union has a seat on United's board, was the first union to grant wage and benefit cuts both before and after United sought Chapter 11 protection.
Grant waged his bloody Overland Campaign in 1864.
Despite granting wage increases to teachers and doctors, he is starting to lose the support of the middle class.
This month, a federal bankruptcy court judge granted the airline's request for emergency pay cuts for union members who had not granted wage and benefit concessions.
Last week, 40,000 building trades workers in the Detroit area accepted a two‐year con tract granting wage increases of 12perr cent the first year and 11percentnthehe second.
Administration officials said they hoped to use the labor negotiations on health coverage to advance Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's policy of granting wage increases to city workers only if the unions agree to money-saving measures to finance the raises.
