1.   They were denied a pay rise when they refused to sign a personal contract because they wanted to be covered by the trade union collective agreement.

2.   Works rules, custom and practice, and some terms in collective agreements can all be incorporated.

3.   A more difficult question is whether employers can rely upon collective agreements to circumvent the need to make job reassignment.

4.   One of the authors has conducted an analysis of a comprehensive sample of collective agreements dealing with technological change.

5.   The vendor will be required to warrant that no trade unions have been recognised and that there are no collective agreements.

6.   Its success in coming to collective agreements and avoiding industrial strife was seen as a gauge of the wider success of the national compacts between employers and unions.

7.   Both officials vowed to seek a collective bargainning agreement that will enable Pillowtex to improve its financial performance.

8.   Consumers and the United Steelworkers of America entered into the renewal of a collective agreement for three and a half years.