Its leaders have long given sermons on how investment in modern equipment -and not labor-management cooperation - is the way to improve productivity and quality.

Labor Secretary Robert Reich frequently promotes labor-management cooperation as a solution to the nation's global competitiveness problems.

One of our main goals was to get a lengthy contract as a means of trying to build a strong culture of labor-management cooperation.

In these and other areas, we will encourage project labor agreements, fostering labor-management cooperation, quality development and efficient use of public monies.

Mr. Watts was a champion of labor-management cooperation, leading some union leaders to say that he was too cozy with management.

No labor issue is more central today than labor-management cooperation.

But the new contract calls for an unusual degree of labor-management cooperation that can be achieved only by a huge change in culture.

It was designed to convince workers of the labor movement's commitment to Christian ideals and labor-management cooperation.

There is nothing inherently wrong with labor-management cooperation, of course, provided it is put to good use to improve productivity.

Afterward, Ford and the union reached an unusual level of labor-management cooperation.