Demands turn to concessions turn to settlements.
Causing attention to himself, and disruption, leading to concessions by the disrupted, are Jackson specialties.
Defenders of the current strategy will explain Iran's continued defiance as a necessary prelude to concessions.
It also agreed to concessions on health care at G.M. and Ford Motor.
While the other two unions had agreed to concessions, the flight attendants had balked.
Other unions agreed to concessions similar to those tentatively made by the guild.
But Mr. Levine said that the job might require the construction unions to agree to concessions to keep costs down.
He caved once before, agreeing to concessions that raised the leveraged buyout offer to $13.65 a share from $13.60.
In the 1980s, members of Local 1112 were so opposed to concessions that they picketed their own union hall.
"Landlords rarely give tenants a hometown discount anymore," he added, referring to concessions offered to current tenants.
The Israeli government agreed to concessions but on the condition that it wouldn't have to endorse them publicly.
