Sentence examples for maritime alliance from inspiring English sources

At the same time, the maritime alliance is taking its toughest bargaining stance in years.

The maritime alliance, known as USMX, said the longshoremen earned $124,000 a year on average in wages and benefits, including the royalty payments.

The maritime alliance, known as USMX, says it paid $211 million in container royalties to the longshoremen last year, averaging $15,500 per eligible worker.

Representatives of the maritime alliance and shipping companies declined to discuss the agreement on the royalty payments or other aspects of the talks, saying that Mr. Cohen had urged the two sides not to talk to the news media.

Dorothy Sue Cobble, a labor relations professor at Rutgers, said the maritime alliance's push to cut labor costs was an example of increased assertiveness among employers at a time when unemployment remains high and many unions are struggling.

Japan in particular is eager to bolster its maritime alliance with Washington.

It quickly became their favoured plan B once it was clear that opposition to the port plan from the Royal Caribbean cruise line and a maritime workers' alliance would prove difficult to overcome.

Trading interests soon interfered with the empire's alliance with the maritime powers of Britain and the Dutch Republic.

When Russia also began to waver, Prince Eugene tried to fall back on the traditional alliance with the maritime powers.

In later centuries, shaped by geographic conditions favouring maritime industries, Denmark established trading alliances throughout northern and western Europe and beyond, particularly with Great Britain and the United States.

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