"But this voluntary agreement is a much better state of affairs."
The committee was set up under the terms of a voluntary agreement.
Thus some union leaders now want to focus instead on voluntary agreements.
I do not think we can simply put our trust in industry' s own voluntary agreements.
The amendment in front of us says, after all, that one such way forward might be a voluntary agreement with industry.
A voluntary agreement is a private law contract between two parties.
Looking at the voluntary agreement with the automobile industry, it just is not good enough.
One was an attempt to get a voluntary agreement with the car industry.
I would like to come back to the idea of voluntary agreements.
This voluntary agreement has been applied to the entire country since 2003.