On Monday, the Federal Aviation Administration said it would impose the contract terms after 10 months of contentious bargaining, including mediation.
It has asked a United States bankruptcy court judge to set aside the contracts of any unions with which it fails to reach an agreement on wage and benefit cuts and impose new contract terms.
In its statement announcing the vote, Local One said that it was unclear whether it even needed the parent union's authorization for a strike if the league were to unilaterally impose new contract terms.
The facts of Jeremy Hunt's imposed contract are as follows.
So the players called the strike, which would be the orchestra's fifth since 1969, and management immediately imposed its offered contract terms: a reduction in the number of guaranteed paid weeks in the season that would lead to a 33 percent cut in guaranteed base salaries in the first year followed by slight rises in the next two years.
At the start of his term, Cuomo angered the two largest state unions, the Public Employees Federation and the Civil Service Employees Union, when he imposed contracts on them that included wage freezes and other concessions.
Staff need discussion and negotiation, not threats of imposed contracts.
"The fact that Chevron has agreed to 'play ball' in Venezuela, while the company's peers have universally rejected the unfavorable contract terms imposed by the Chávez government, may portend difficulty there," said the memo, code-named "Invictus".
"The fact that Chevron has agreed to 'play ball' in Venezuela, while the company's peers have universally rejected the unfavorable contract terms imposed by the Chávez government, may portend difficulty there," said the memo, code-named "Invictus". "Nonetheless, the populist Chávez government remains a natural ally" of the plaintiffs.
