Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're doing very well with the third-largest bargaining unit.

The proposal was the result of good faith negotiations between the company and the union bargaining committees.

we have made enough progress over the past two days that the union is willing to continue working while bargaining goes on.

Lizz Winstead

It just seems OK these days to throw women under the bus. Like we're a bargaining chip.

We are declining to discuss the details of the bargaining. We're doing our bargaining at the table.

Over the last five or six years, there's a lot more day-to-day contact between our offices on a whole host of things. You develop better working relations as a result of doing that. You hope that that translates into something which makes bargaining a little easier. But that's something you wait to find out.

Our focus is on the bargaining table. The union feels it can be done, we feel it can be done. We just have to follow through.

I thought we discussed wages and COLAs in our closed session and the board established bargaining guidelines last week. I'm somewhat at a loss that this is a continuing discussion.

John Roberts

It is not a process under which senators get to say, 'I want you to rule this way and this way and this way, and if you'll tell me that you'll rule this way and this way and this way, I'll vote for you, ... That's not a bargaining process. Judges are not politicians. They cannot promise to do certain things in exchange for votes.

Our members have not had a wage increase since 2002 and given that they live in a high cost-of-living area, it's unacceptable. The company hasn't changed its position at the bargaining table in about a year.

Gary Ross

I would think they are setting their bargaining position high, so that when they sit at the table, they can then compromise.

We believe this move undermines the integrity of the collective bargaining process and denies IAM-represented employees the right to exercise their vote,

John Gage

We had hoped that Judge Collyer's decision would bring all parties involved to the bargaining table.

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone. The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

More than anything it tells the UAW that their bargaining power is gone, ... The market is defining wages and benefits of the future and the best they can hope for is to work collaboratively with the companies to survive.

Negotiators were prepared to discuss that issue today, but Sikorsky would rather play games than engage in good-faith bargaining that would get people back to work.

Ralph Miller

Send (your negotiator) back to the bargaining table with some direction, some ideas, some flexibility and some willingness to reach an agreement.

We never received a counter proposal from the company. Nothing but a rejection letter. My opinion was that their minds were already made up that we entered into nothing but surface bargaining with the company.

We have said consistently that the only basis of finding satisfactory resolution to these matters is through the use of the collective bargaining process with Delphi, GM and the UAW at the bargaining table.

We were very happy to have the company treat us as they did. It was truly different than bargaining with International Paper.

A contract that provides the good jobs for working families certainly won't be won at the bargaining table. The only way you can win that is either on the picket lines, and in the community.

That might be a bargaining position and it might move from there toward talking about some form of federalism, but that's still a long way off.

That's a nuance that is left, really, to the bargaining table. We told the union that despite the fact that we're going to continue operating the plant, we are very interested, always have been, in reaching a new agreement." ()

That's confidential information. That's one thing if the committee members want it. It would be contrary to our policy that we entered with the union. It's contrary to the collective bargaining agreement.

It is time to say good-bye to an initially intended transition to a more flexible collective bargaining system and a reduction of non-wage costs for employers.

The rest of the package is pretty good. But when they come to you in June and say, 'This is the medical, take it or leave it,' that's not bargaining in good faith.

No major decision is expected soon. The tough bargaining is likely to last until mid-December -- Berlusconi hopes for a signing ceremony in Rome by mid next year.

Hubert Humphrey

They can either meet those terms at a bargaining table, or they can put their fate in the hands of 12 Minnesotans,

Alan Rosenberg

They want to form partnerships with our employers rather than stand up and fight for our fair share. What we want to do is stay at the bargaining table and go for the best deal we can get.

They wanted lots of different plans, none of which would have the bargaining clout to get prices down.

The government's role is necessary for big deals; foreign parties are monopolies while Chinese parties are diversified and do not have significant bargaining power.

The President's proposal should be viewed as an initial bargaining position.

Alan Rosenberg

The recent election made clear that our membership expects concrete results, particularly in our collective bargaining and our nationwide organizing efforts.