Sentence examples for reopen contracts from inspiring English sources

In 1995, Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani backed off a plan to reopen contracts to bid after the union threatened a strike.

They were the most significant since a deep industry recession and a near-bankruptcy at Chrysler prompted the U.A.W. to reopen contracts at G.M. and Ford in 1982.

The governor said he would not seek layoffs, but labor leaders have expressed reluctance to agree to reopen contracts negotiated on behalf of the state's roughly 200,000 workers.

By aggressively calling on the union to reopen contracts and to forego previously agreed upon raises as the best way to avoid massive cuts in state education aid, Christie is stoking the fires of class warfare and appears to be gaining traction.

They also called on the city to reopen contract talks with the school custodians' union.

The measure would also require the F.A.A. to reopen contract negotiations with air traffic controllers, which the Bush administration opposes.

The president of New York City's largest union for school bus drivers said this week that he would reopen contract negotiations for general and special-education student transportation, indicating that a strike was not imminent.

Despite having downsized its operations in the last three years, G.M. said it would cut more than 20percentt of its remaining jobs, shut nine factories, seek to renegotiate the terms of $66 billion in debt, and push to reopen contract talks with the United Automobile Workers to reduce labor costs.

Before the hearing, Rivera's representative and Yankees' officials briefly reopened contract talks that had stalled last month after Rivera rejected the team's four-year, $36 million offer.

When the housing bubble burst in Pembroke Pines, a city of 150,000 in Broward County, Fla., taxable property values plummeted, and the city responded by raising the tax rate and making a declaration of "financial urgency," which allowed it to reopen its contracts.

That would be -- with the consent of employee bargaining units -- to reopen existing contracts.