national agreement

noun

1. written formal agreements covering rates of pay and other terms and conditions of employment that are the result of collective bargaining at national level between one or more trade unions and employers in a sector of the economy

Example Sentences

In 1906 the employing lithographers discontinued their national agreement with the lithographers' union.

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All orders in the State were comprehended in this national agreement.

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True it is that even in these branches of railroad service the unreasoning form of national agreement has crept in.

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