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Business Definition for: Single-employer Bargaining

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Bargaining power in the typical recording industry negotiation
The following is not meant to substitute for legal advice. For legal advice seek the advice of a lawyer directly. introduction Most often, an artist's success at the negotiating table is primarily due to one single factor: bargaining power which is actually a multitude of interrelated factors as discussed below....
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Research articles 1999-01-01
Evidence of Buyer Bargaining Power in the Stockholm Residential Real Estate Market
Abstract This study investigates whether uninformed buyers pay higher prices for single-family houses than do other buyers and tests whether the bargaining power increases with information. Data on real estate prices and attributes is examined, as well as household characteristics and buying process from Stockholm. The results suggest that uninformed...
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Research articles 2008-10-01
Serizawa pleads guilty to perjury in plea-bargaining
AKRON, Ohio, May 1 Kyodo (EDS: UPDATING WITH MORE DETAILS THROUGHOUT) Japanese scientist Hiroaki Serizawa pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of perjury through plea-bargaining in return for the drop of espionage charges over the removal of classified research materials from a U.S. government-funded...
Tags: Okamoto Corp.
Research articles 2002-05-06
Partnering to compete: borrowing a page from the political realm's use of coalitions as an effective bargaining tool, Premium Standard Farms and PM Beef Group, both based in Kansas City, MO, coalesced to use their combined strength to gain marketshare for
Hitch your wagon to a star, advised Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century American author, poet, and philosopher. Based on a pioneering business venture between two meat industry firms, this is not a bad idea. That leaders of these two firms gave a single thought to Emerson's philosophy as a guiding...
Tags: beef, FINANCE, food, Manufacturing, meat, partnership, Tom, tool, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Research articles 2002-10-01
Industry Briefs
AIRLINE INDUSTRY INFORMATION-C1997-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The pilots' unions of the Swiss airlines Crossair and Swissair have started negotiations on a single collective bargaining agreement with Crossair management - which has incorporated some of the activities and personnel of the now-bankrupt Swissair. The parties, which took...
Tags: Frontier Airlines Inc.
Research articles 2002-01-09
Hiding In Plain Sight: Using Medicare To Solve The â??Public Optionâ?? Conundrum
By JEFF GOLDSMITH As Senate and House Committee versions of health reform move toward unified legislation and floor votes, the most complex political challenge is how to resolve the "public option" controversy.  While one would have thought weightier issues such as the shape of Medicare reform, the taxation required to...
Tags: Medicare
News items 2009-10-21
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Peace prize a call to action, Obama says WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 UPI -- U.S. President Barack Obama said Friday he would accept the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize as a call to action to seek greater global engagement on issues. "I do not view it as a recognition of my own...
Tags: NATO, North Korea, President
News items 2009-10-09
What Does Verizon Selling Northern New England Landlines Mean?
Verizon’s proposed sale of its landline business in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire is an indicator of the turmoil to come in telecom during the next five years. Verizon is open that it needs to concentrate its assets on upgrading its access in the part...
Tags: General, Operational accounting, Verizon Communications Inc., FairPoint Communications
Blog posts 2007-05-31
How to Manage an IP Portfolio
Intellectual property ranges from patents and copyrights to branding, know-how, and trade secrets. Assembling a portfolio to value, track, and protect your IP can improve your valuation, among other benefits. Take Inventory Goal: Make IP work for...
Tags: Patent, IP, Patent Filing, Network Technology, Networking, Intellectual Property, BNET Crash Course, Erik Sherman
Articles 2009-08-05
A Bright Idea
According to a theory of relativity, energy can be neither created nor destroyed - but thankfully it can be conserved. In addition, that is exactly what distribution centers across the country are doing, after high-energy prices and blackouts in California. Article discusses the problem of inflated energy bills and unscheduled...
Tags: Blackout, Reed Elsevier Inc., Energy, Productivity
White papers 2002-06-01
Procuring Fast Delivery: Sole Sourcing With Information Asymmetry
This paper studies a queuing model in which a buyer sources a good or service from a single supplier chosen from a pool of suppliers. The buyer seeks to minimize the sum of her procurement and operating cost, the latter of which depends on the supplier's lead time. The selected...
Tags: Sourcing, Supplier, Buyer, Channel Management, Marketing
White papers 2005-01-31
Cutting teeth
More Americans than ever are enrolled in discount plans that promise big savings on dental care but don't cover any of the costs. Once the domain of shaky regional upstarts, such plans are increasingly available through respected national carriers, including Aetna and Cigna. They cost just a few bucks...
Tags: Aetna Inc., Benefits, CIGNA Corp., dentist, FINANCE, Insurance
Research articles 2005-12-01
NBA, NCAA want players to stay
SAN ANTONIO -- Memphis' Derrick Rose and UCLA's Kevin Love might close out their college careers in the Final Four, moving on to the NBA after the single year they were required to spend on campus. The NCAA would keep them longer if it could. NBA...
Tags: Branding, league, MARKETING, NBA, NCAA
Research articles 2008-04-04
Galileo sparring leads to no decision; clock running
They're in a world of hurt over there. Contract talks for the Galileo operating consortium haven't budged a millimeter since early December, the government chiefs are spitting fire, industry has not come to the bargaining table presenting a single front, the lead negotiators on both sides appear worn down, and...
Tags: concession, consortium, European Commission, European Space Agency, FINANCE, Government, GPS, negotiation, NETWORKING, PPP, revenue, Strategy
Research articles 2007-04-01
Sam Zell's Plan D: It's All About Buying Time
[Guest post by Ken Doctor, Content Bridges]Sam Zell's House of Cards has fallen flat. Today's bankruptcy filing changes everything and nothing. If we still have the capacity for amazement, after a year of subprime meltdown, worldwide recession and the election of Barack Obama, Tribune going banko would be stunning....
Tags: Tribune Co., Bankruptcy, Sam Zell, Julie Moos, Zell, Buying Time, Scripps, Litigation, Business Operations, Companies, Tribune, Media, Newspapers, Rafat Ali
External links 2008-12-09
New deal revives plan to bring Meijer store to Rolling Meadows.(News)
Byline: Cass Cliatt Daily Herald Staff Writer A single building sign was the last piece in a complex puzzle of negotiations that might finally put a Meijer store on the Rolling Meadows landscape, officials said this week. After 20 months of bargaining,...
Tags: Meijer Inc.
Research articles 2001-09-20
ISRAEL - Mar 29 - Olmert Considers Options After Slender Victory
Ehud Olmert embarks on forming a broad coalition to implement his plan for separating Israel from the Palestinians after his new Kadima party wins the largest number of seats in Mar 28 elections. With just 28 seats in the 120-member Knesset, Kadima's less-than-decisive victory meant tough bargaining ahead as Olmert...
Tags: West Bank
Research articles 2006-04-01
Senate Investigates Hospital Group Purchasing Organizations
Almost four years ago, we posted about the strange world of hospital group purchasing organizations GPOs. These organization purchase large volumes of medical products for member hospitals, but a "safe harbor provision" in federal law allows them to charge the vendors, not the hospitals for their services. In fact, it...
Tags: hospital
News items 2009-08-14