productivity bargaining

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the process of reaching an agreement (productivity agreement) through collective bargaining whereby the employees of an organization agree to changes which are intended to improve productivity in return for an increase in pay or other benefits

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How to use productivity bargaining in a sentence

What designer West lacks in productivity, he more than makes up for in pure, unadulterated confidence and blind anger.
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian’s Balmain Campaign: High Fashion Meets Low Culture|Amy Zimmerman|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It invites dictatorial and rogue regimes to use Americans serving overseas as bargaining chips.
Aging Cuban Exiles And Their Lawmakers Bypassed by White House|Romina Ruiz-Goiriena|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That victory for the tab became a bargaining chip in all future dealings with the superstar.
I Warned You About Bill Cosby in 2007|Mark Ebner|November 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
To the contrary, she said, she did not necessarily believe that collective bargaining needed to be reformed.
Meet Gina Raimondo, the Only Democratic Star of 2014|David Freedlander|November 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Companies are also intolerant of violence in the workplace because it undermines workforce stability and hampers productivity.
How Your Company Can End Violence Against Girls|Gary Cohen|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Here and there you could see brown men robed in white sitting near these mountains of fruit, bargaining about the prices.
Kari the Elephant|Dhan Gopal Mukerji
In tribute to this literary productivity, he liked to refer to himself as Literature, while addressing Tootles as Art.
The Woman Gives|Owen Johnson
Chicot was bargaining for some horses, when he saw the monk reappear, carrying the saddles and bridles of the mules.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere
A sort of Oriental bargaining takes place, the seller asking twice as much as the object is worth and he intends to take.
Spanish Life in Town and Country|L. Higgin and Eugne E. Street
But it would be unjust and inconsiderate to ascribe this want of productivity to the disposition called laziness.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science|Various