wage negotiation

collocation in English

meaningsofwageandnegotiation

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wage
noun[S]
uk
/weɪdʒ/us
/weɪdʒ/
a particular amount of money that is paid, usually every week, to an employee, especially one who does work that needs physical skills or strength, rather than a job needing a ...
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negotiation
noun[C or U]
uk
/nəˌɡəʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/us
/nəˌɡoʊ.ʃiˈeɪ.ʃən/
the process of discussing something with someone in order to reach an agreement with them, or the ...
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(Definition ofwageandnegotiationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Elster illustrates this using awagenegotiationgame between a government and a trade union.
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I am bound to say thatwagenegotiationin this country in both the private and public sectors needs close examination.
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This kind of discrimination must be removed if we are to have a logical basis for sound and scientificwagenegotiation.
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That was an employer talking to an agency, negotiating freely on the basis of an institutionalised form ofwagenegotiation.
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They sought also to remove themselves directly from thewagenegotiationprocess.
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We recognise that price restraint, in itself, must inhibitwagenegotiation, forwagenegotiationcan no longer be free if there are price ceilings.
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Surely, there could hardly be a better counter in awagenegotiationthan a wage-related, service-related severance scheme.
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In those groups, that is where wages are fixed by the traditional voluntary machinery ofwagenegotiation, there will be little or no difficulty.
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To do this would be inconsistent with the working of the normalwagenegotiationmachinery.
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It tends to become a minimum forwagenegotiationand it is very inflexible as between one industry and another.
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Unrest results, and large groups, such as trade unions, use their clout and muscle in every newwagenegotiation.
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It is an old precept of trade unionwagenegotiationthat wages shall be negotiated nationally and not regionally.
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But no one who knows anything about the industrial process believes that one can abstract the business ofwagenegotiationfrom the business of production.
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In other words, what we were dealing with was not a conventionalwagenegotiationbetween the employers and employed.
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I asked him the specific question whether or not he thought there was some defect in the existingwagenegotiationmachinery.
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I was talking only a couple of days ago to a friend of mine who was responsible for a majorwagenegotiation.
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Abundant authority for that can be found in the history ofwagenegotiation.
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Wagenegotiationis only one part of the social contract.
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In reality, the blame rests impersonally on the hopelessly outmoded wage structure of the railways and the outmoded system ofwagenegotiation.
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They want to takewagenegotiationaway from the methods used so far and place it under the restriction of contract law.
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