Sentences with phrase «at the bargaining table»

«We worked hard at the bargaining table to craft a system that intelligently uses student data in the evaluation of teachers,» he said.

State involvement promises to raise standards for the teaching profession to a degree that would be impossible for districts at the bargaining table.

And if teachers somehow don't get what they want at the bargaining table, they are allowed to strike in seven of those states.

The inspector provides a report to a buyer, who can then bring that information to a seller and use it back at the bargaining table.

Our attorneys represent management clients in the collective bargaining process and often serve as management's chief spokesperson at the bargaining table.

Factory owners, though, said the nickname referred more to the company's take - it - or - leave - it style at the bargaining table.

No other investors had an advocate at the bargaining table.

The current law makes unions and the employer equally responsible for achieving pay equity at the bargaining table.

The deals show how little juice is left for public sector unions trying to deliver using traditional tools at the bargaining table or in the political arena.

Quite simply, school - board elections offer teacher unions the unusual opportunity to influence the makeup of the management team they will face at the bargaining table.

Any number of factors, from excessively generous concessions at the bargaining table to a fiscal crisis at the state level, can throw a district into financial turmoil.

These proposals deserve serious consideration at the bargaining table because for too long, teachers have been treated as subjects - rather than agents - of educational change.

Please get a contract done at the bargaining table and not in the classroom.

A press conference will be held that day to highlight the parent / community presence at the bargaining table.

«Everyone has underestimated when this deal gets done,» said one executive at the bargaining table.

In order to advance those interests, agencies must remain firm at the bargaining table where proposals threaten client service or the mandate to provide continued service.

Below, we identify those areas regularly advanced at the bargaining table and share bargaining tips for the sector.

The era of rapidly rising office rents that dominated the booming property markets in 2006 and 2007 has reversed course, giving tenants the upper hand at the bargaining table.

Their resistance cost the sellers time and money at the bargaining table.

«We worked hard at the bargaining table to craft a system that intelligently uses student data in the evaluation of teachers,» he said in a statement.

Jim has extensive experience representing management at the bargaining table in union negotiations and litigating labor disputes in court, before arbitrators and at the National Labor Relations Board.

Under the umbrella of the bipartisan National Governors Association, the governors are moving to take a seat at the bargaining table as Congress and President Bush work on renewing the law, which has forced states to make changes in how they test students and hold schools accountable.

But as it stands now, UTLA and LAUSD remain at the bargaining table with the deadline looming overhead and no end in sight to their bickering.

Despite the National Education Association's claims to be an advocate «for children and public education,» we should not expect unions at the bargaining table to be for anything but their own interests.

Next up for ROSLA is the September 15, when community organizations will join UTLA at the bargaining table as they begin their contract negotiations with the district.

It's not as though we have stubbornly refused to address health issues at the bargaining table.

Top administration officials have signaled they could solve the trade dispute at the bargaining table.

CSEA will continue to negotiate in good faith at the bargaining table on an agreement that will fairly address the state's fiscal situation, while respecting the needs of the 66,000 CSEA members who deliver a wide range of essential services to the people of New York every day.»

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's handpicked negotiator, Joseph Bress, is representing the Thruway and Canal management at the bargaining table.

Four years after public school teachers lost their guaranteed spot at the bargaining table, Wisconsin's largest teachers union has lost more than half its membership and its spending at the Capitol has all but disappeared.

Armed with strike authorization, teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians say they believe this will give them more leverage at the bargaining table going forward.

In Secret Negotiations, U.S. Officials and Corporate Representatives Trade Our Human and Constitutional Rights for Corporate Profit When «Everything That's Fit to Print» Doesn't Include the Content of a Proposed Trade Agreement, Who Represents the Public Interest at the Bargaining Table?

Existing ideological polarization, especially between secularists and Islamists, played a crucial role in determining the diversity of interests represented at the bargaining table, as well as the ultimate balance each constitution struck between government empowerment and minority rights.

And they tend to take the process too personally: A 2013 study from the University of Oxford demonstrated that entrepreneurs are inclined to express more emotion at the bargaining table, to their detriment.

But officials from both sides of the border met together at the bargaining table in January in an effort to incorporate North Korean athletes at the PyeongChang Games.

His attributes his success at the bargaining table and in the classroom to empathy, «the No. 1 quality of a great negotiator,» and even attends undergraduate courses in different disciplines to maintain the perspective of a student.

Both the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference, representing about 3,000 CP Rail engineers and conductors, and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, with about 365 signal and communications workers, cite a lack of progress at the bargaining table.

If it is a tactic, however, it is a particularly poor one in this instance as it mostly affects countries we are not in trade negotiations with, and ignores the majority of countries currently at the bargaining table.

Said retailers, meanwhile, are huge in their own right, not only so they can match their massive suppliers at the bargaining table but also so they can scale logistics, inventory management, store development, etc..

Who could blame her if Trump's protectionist nativism proves impossible to overcome at the bargaining table?

While lawyers for BlackRock and Pimco were negotiating this deal, other investors in the securities were not at the bargaining table.

What Canada Post has put forward is a reasonable approach that will end the uncertainty immediately and allow for meaningful discussions at the bargaining tables.

«This has led to a decrease in competition for listings across Greater Vancouver, giving rise to new market conditions where prospective homeowners have more power at the bargaining table, causing prices to soften.»

That same afternoon, we'll discuss our fightback at the bargaining table.

While Treasury Board is at the bargaining table trying to snatch away our paid sick leave, paid sick leave for employees in the private sector (that's right, Tony Clement) is becoming a trend in the US.

On the other hand, if he is a «hot commodity», psychologically it tends to lessen the impact of Peterson's negatives at the bargaining table.

Gillman could be tough at the bargaining table.

This giddiness was soon tempered at the bargaining table.

Even the deal to unite the party, forged late last year, was criticized by liberals for holding a special election after the budget is meant to come due, effectively keeping Republicans at the bargaining table.

Kane even offered a suggestion for Mayor Dyster who appears to be banking on the Governor's ability at the bargaining table.