As in recent contracts with the Sergeants Benevolent Associationn and other uniformed service unions, the deal includes increases in longevity pay.
The union has said that the N.F.L. did not receive as much money in recent contracts in exchange for being paid during a lockout.
Jonathan J. Miller, the president of the appraisal company Miller Samuel Inc., said prices in recent contracts fell 15 to 20percentt, which will show up in lower closing prices in the next quarter.
In a statement, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which represents the companies, accused the actors of trying to reach beyond a new-media framework settled in recent contracts with the Writers Guild of America East, the Writers Guild of America West and the Directors Guild of America.
Ms. Weingarten, who won significant pay raises for teachers in recent contracts, said only that she was weighing a run for the presidency of the national union, which represents 1.2 million teachers, school aides and other workers.
GlaxoSmithKline, based in Britain, said in a recent contract that all amounts that it paid to a benefit manager should be disclosed to the manager's customers, if they ask for the information, according to an industry executive who saw the contract.
The system was extended in the recent contract round to include these recipients, but the results in terms of speeding up the exit rate from benefits to sustainable jobs are much less satisfactory for that group than they have proved to be for UI benefit recipients or recipients of sole-parent benefits.
This has become such a significant problem in Canadian health care that it was one of the major issues in the recent contract negotiations between the Ontario government and the Ontario Medical Association [ 2, 3].
The pilots sought early talks, the union said, because pilots at United Airlines won large raises in a recent contract and because Continental's 5,400 pilots on average now have the lowest wages among the major carriers.
District Council 37, New York City's largest union of municipal workers, kicked off negotiations yesterday with city officials and demanded many of the same things the transport workers gained in their recent contract battle.
