Can the public employees recognize that wage settlements will directly reduce the level of services for everyone else?

As preparations for the district court hearing began, the government tried to secure a wage settlement.

He negotiated a high - and widely criticized - wage settlement with the teachers in 1990.

In practice, employers might factor their share of the payroll tax into wage settlements.

Local labor courts are now free to award the wage settlements that they see fit.

Both sides have expressed concern about what a low wage settlement would mean to the ability to attract qualified teachers.

The city should maintain its labor costs at current levels by a combination of lower wage settlements and a smaller workforce.

It paved the way for an important wage settlement.

Some economists had forecast that the rate might break through 10 percent because of higher wage settlements and consumer spending.

Whatever the outcome of the wage settlement, it is now being seen as positive for the mark.