These costs can be mitigated by (higher) representativeness thresholds, which can in principle preserve the usefulness of extension agreements such as preventing the undercutting of reasonable employment standards and sustaining collective bargaining.
The nuclear bargain has become hopelessly one-sided, and the instruments created to sustain that bargain seem unequal to the task.
You might suppose that, as intrepid value investors, they would be borne up and sustained by the compelling bargains they've discovered in the Nasdaq ruins.
On April 12 , 1937 Hughes delivered the opinion in National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation, which sustained the right of collective bargaining under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (the Wagner Act), and a few weeks later the court upheld various provisions of the Social Security Act.
The logic of high wages, sustained and regulated by collective bargaining, was stronger in a closed economy in which the marginal competition came from Mississippi.
The result: the political bargain that had sustained the fragile Iraqi state broke down.
When this happens, the status quo will be sustained only by the tacit bargain of the American political duopoly, in which the two parties agree not to make trade a serious issue, whatever tactical feints they may deploy.
This has allowed the Communist Party to sustain a unique bargain with its people: We give you jobs and rising standards of living, and you give us power.
The U.S.-Saudi alliance is a self-enriching bargain between the two countries' élites, sustained without mutual understanding or sympathy between their publics.
The federal study of citizen complaints pointed to the influence of police unions as one factor: Complaints were sustained 15percentt of the time at law enforcement agencies that had to collectively bargain with employees, more than twice the 7percentt rate at agencies that didn't collectively bargain.
