In addition to imposing the term on Friday, Federal District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr. of Brooklyn ordered the floor clerk, Frank Furino, 50, of Port Washington, N.Y., to pay $150,000 in restitution, according to court records.
But medical organisations are worried that imposing the terms and conditions will exacerbate the NHS's worsening medical staffing problems.
The Dutch government collapsed on Monday because of opposition to imposing the terms of the same fiscal pact that Mr. Hollande wants to revise.
The union decided to call a vote because producers have been contemplating a plan to impose the terms of a new contract on the stagehands.
Most sovereign bonds issued in the past decade include "collective-action clauses", which impose the terms of a restructuring on all creditors if a supermajority of bondholders accepts.
Greece will try to impose the terms on all investors by writing collective-action clauses into the contracts of its old bonds.
Over the weekend, the company announced that it would try to impose the terms of its last contract offer on the engineers, a bid to force them back to work that the union insisted would not shake its resolve.
In Britain, the insolvency law is not so much the attraction as the reliable "scheme of arrangement" process under English corporate law, which can be used to impose the terms of a workout on dissenting creditors.
When Brown refused counseling and community service orders, the judge imposed the jail term.
But on Monday the three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit imposed the longer term.
