Sentences with phrase «bargained wage agreement»

As late as 1972, only 14 percent of school districts had a majority of unionized teachers with a collectively bargained wage agreement.

Not exact matches

Enterprise bargaining outcomes in the early part of the year also suggested little change in the rate of wage growth; new federal enterprise agreements in the March quarter yielded an average annualised increase of 3.4 per cent, unchanged from the previous quarter.

Wage increases in enterprise bargaining agreements have been running at quite a high rate, although they may have eased slightly towards the end of 1996 (Graph 20).

The root of this difficulty is that both sides in public - employee negotiations find it in their interest to reduce the wage portion of the overall collective bargaining agreement — which, in the case of the Chicago public school teachers, is quite high at over $ 75,000 per year — in favor of larger pension benefits under a «defined benefits» plan.

We think it beyond question that a union may conclude a wage agreement with the multiemployer bargaining unit without violating the antitrust laws, and that it may, as a matter of its own policy, and not by agreement with all or part of the employers of that unit, seek the same wages from other employers.

(b) A union may make wage agreements with a multiemployer bargaining unit and may, in pursuance of its own self - interests, seek to obtain the same terms from other employers, but it forfeits its antitrust exemption when it agrees with a group of employers to impose a certain wage scale on other bargaining units, and thus joins a conspiracy to curtail competition.

For over thirty years, Mr. Miklave has represented employers and management in all areas of employment, civil rights, and traditional labor law, including issues arising under federal and state anti-discrimination and anti-retaliation statutes; non-compete agreements and other post-employment restrictions; wage and hour investigations and litigation; multi-employer pension plan withdrawal liability and administration; collective - bargaining negotiations, administration and enforcement proceedings; corporate restructurings, reorganizations and plant closings; and employment practices and policies.

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Bill Emer, of counsel in the firm's Labor & Employment practice, has more than 40 years of experience in labor and employment law in the areas of traditional labor relations, negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, discrimination, sexual harassment, wrongful termination, class actions, labor and employment counseling, California and federal wage - and - hour counseling and litigation, and the representation of employers before administrative agencies.

This includes charges before the EEOC and state fair employment practice agencies; wrongful termination, discharge, employment discrimination, wage / hour, wrongful discharge and breach of contract claims in federal and state courts; prosecuting and defending claims for enforcement of non-competition agreements and trade secret rights; and arbitrations under employment and collective bargaining agreements.