Sentence examples for settled a contract from inspiring English sources

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

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

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

"The cleaning contractors who employ these janitors settled a contract in New York City this spring that includes wages at $17 per hour, full-time work, a pension, health care and a computer for every family," Mr. Carter said.

Nevertheless, Samuelsen rejected the idea that Cuomo was "anti-union," noting that his union had a productive relationship with the state-run Metropolitan Transportation Authority, which recently settled a contract his members were happy with.

"It would be hard to depict a guy as anti-union who settled a contract with paid parental leave for the first time ever, and increases in our health benefits," he said.

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

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

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

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

"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.