21.   Unlike the UAW, the IUE has accepted multi-tiered wage agreements in its plants as a way to protect jobs.

22.   When the benchmark wage agreement was reached in March, German bonds fell amid concerns the extra income would translate to consumer-driven inflation.

23.   According to the new legislation, the government can impose its own agreement on state enterprises should they fail to reach timely collective wage agreement with unions.

24.   Also Friday, another car maker, Asia Motors Corp., which produces mostly buses and trucks, reported a tentative wage agreement.

25.   Analysts said rising oil prices, special taxes, summer sales and wage agreements were behind the slight increase.

26.   But public transportation workers did not because they have preset wage agreements with the government.

27.   German wage agreements usually set the pace for those elsewhere in Europe.

28.   Guards at the beaches of Tel Aviv, Haifa and Acre were not striking after they worked out a wage agreement, Goldstein told The Associated Press.

29.   He said SEPLA had sent a letter to Iberia warning of drastic action by the pilots if the current wage agreement was broken.

30.   He said the agreement and some clauses in recent wage agreements with government employees, are illegal.