21.   Business executives, having pressed for a plan that would guarantee part-time employment status and allow for separate labor contracts covering individual companies, were critical.

22.   But if the help does not arrive by Wednesday, the company will ask the bankruptcy judge to end its labor contract.

23.   But in early January, the union members showed their distaste for the labor contract by voting it down.

24.   But GM has not been able to reduce employment to match because of its restrictive labor contracts, Harbour said.

25.   But she said the company will have to renegotiate its labor contract, regardless.

26.   But many labor contracts contain such requirements, known as union security provisions, and the lower courts are split on their validity.

27.   But the more militant Canadian union has not agreed to such a provision and, in any case, the labor contract in Canada has already expired.

28.   But they said the plan would take effect only if the union agreed to a limit on player payrolls in a new labor contract.

29.   By most accounts he accomplished all three, slashing the deficit, streamlining mail deliveries, and signing the first labor contract with the postal workers union.

30.   Casey said the offer ignores the demand for a new labor contract.