The owners again acted unilaterally in February 1995, eliminating salary arbitration, free agent bidding, and anticollusion provisions.
Stories abound of boardroom clashes, succession struggles, multi-million-pound salaries and bonuses, takeover bids and corporate intrigue.
The government has promised 20bn forints towards new doctors' salary bonuses in a bid to slow the outflow of graduates to western countries.
In 2010, a Justice Department investigation concluded that several companies shared confidential salary information to prevent bidding wars and promised not to call each other's staff.
The union loves free-market bidding without salary caps precisely because it encourages team owners like Hicks and the Yankees' George Steinbrenner to offer contracts like Rodriguez's 10-year, $252 million deal, which serves as a rising tide that lifts all player salaries.
In 2006, Judith A. Jacobs, then Nassau's presiding officer, inserted $400,000 in the 2007 budget for "legislative assistant salaries" in a bid to raise legislative pay to about $56,000.
Uncertainty over the labor agreement could subdue the bidding; the average salary for an N.H.L. player rose only slightly last season, to about $1.8 million.
The BBC is preparing to make significant concessions to controversial plans to overhaul its final salary pension scheme in a bid to head off the threat of industrial action that could hit its Proms coverage.
They put themselves and their resumes out there for venture-backed companies like Dropbox to bid on with salary and equity offers over a two-week period.
Murray claims that, while he was chairman, the club's nominated adviser and broker had backed him in his bid to reduce the salary payments.
