Sentence examples for settle a contract from inspiring English sources

Mechanics have asked a federal mediator to help settle a contract battle that has lasted two years.

The global coffee chain restated its accounts after agreeing to pay $2.7bn to settle a contract dispute with Kraft Foods.

"We could settle a contract a lot more easily if that wasn't on the table," said Jerry Jordan, the chief union negotiator.

OfficeMax also said it had offered to pay $5.1 million to settle a contract dispute with a unit of Ryder System.

Carter badly missed two dunks, but was hardly fretting a day after signing a $30 million endorsement deal with Nike, half of which was used to settle a contract dispute with Puma.

Among other things, he needs to settle a contract with the teachers' union that would provide up to a 16percentt raise; he has the money for part of that, but not all.

"In that whole 21 years, we've never settled a contract peacefully," Ms. Best said.

"I think, 'How did I get through that?' It was tougher than settling a contract with the unions.

This year, it settled a contract with the city's largest police union that granted a 17percentt pay raise over four years.

Ms. Levy noted that her union was the only one in the city that had not settled a contract.

"We have reached this point because the union leadership has made a strategic decision that the unionizing efforts were more important than settling a contract," Ms. Klasky said.