Sentence examples for ratify a contract from inspiring English sources

The union representing New York City school principals and assistant principals voted overwhelmingly yesterday to ratify a contract deal with New York City.

| Updated After 21 months of protracted negotiations between The New York Times and the union representing newsroom staff, members of the union voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday afternoon to ratify a contract.

In the latest tally announced Monday, the union said members also voted to ratify a contract with the Delphi Corporation, the auto parts supplier and a former G.M. division.

A 10-day strike that inconvenienced about 9,000 wheelchair users and other people with disabilities who depend on Access-a-Ride, a government-financed van service, ended on Wednesday when members of Local 1181 of the Amalgamated Transit Union voted to ratify a contract settlement.

The insanity even included giving workers a bonus just to ratify a contract.

The largest union at United Airlines said today that it had ratified a contract covering more than 23,000 ground workers.

By comparison, the union representing the workers who clean offices throughout the city, Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union, ratified a contract last month that was not as rich.

Last week, the principals' union ratified a contract that creates a greatly expedited process for removing principals who have failed to meet certain standards.

The deal comes two months after District Council 37, the city's largest municipal labor union, ratified a contract that covers 27 months and provides two 4percentt increases.

In June, after years of talks, the province and two native peoples (the Inuit and the Innu) at last ratified a contract to develop the mine with Inco, a mining firm.

The latest example comes from Washington, where the union has wisely negotiated and ratified a contract that gives the city greater leeway to pay, promote or fire teachers based on performance.