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DALLAS, March 17, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Southwest Airlines (NYSE: LUV) is currently in contract negotiations with its Dispatchers, represented by Transport Workers Union (TWU) 550. At yesterday's negotiating session, the carrier announced that it will seek assistance from the National Mediation Board through the mediation process as defined by the Railway Labor Act. "We are naturally disappointed that we have been unable to reach an agreement with the Transport Workers Union 550," said Greg...
RICHMOND, Va., March 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a decision that is expected to have a significant impact on commercial real estate transactions, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals of California has upheld a district court's decision that a signed document, titled "Final Proposal," is an enforceable ground lease agreement with a put and call option to purchase--even though the document clearly indicated that a future legal document was intended to finalize the pending agreement between the...
STOCKHOLM, March 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- DigitalRoute today announced a new partnership agreement with Capgemini France, a subsidiary of the Capgemini Group, to launch a new MediationZone(R) Factory based in Rennes, France. The new center of excellence will speed and secure upcoming projects by providing industrialized support to pre-build components and also the key competence that is required for a complete set of implementation services. The establishment of the MediationZone...
Solano County attorney, Norbert U. Frost, helps people come together and resolve their cases to avoid the need for time-consuming and expensive court trials. Vallejo, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) March 06, 2011 In 2010, Norbert U. Frost, a Solano and Napa County estate planning and family law attorney, was invited by the Solano County Superior Court to become a trained mediator for the court's new No Fee Mediation Program. Mr. Frost completed the 42-hour program, "Mediating the Litigated Case,"...
BEIJING, Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- ChinaTotalAccess (CTA), the leading high-technology trade and business development service provider, announced the winning of lawsuit over Expand Networks (EXPAND), a WAN optimization device manufacturer in Israel, for its breach of business contract between two parties. On Dec. 15, 2010, the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court pronounced that the judgment in the first trial: Defendant EXPAND's argument of "Plaintiff(CTA)'s litigation...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- One week ago, the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association accepted the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service's invitation to conduct their continuing negotiations under my auspices, together with Deputy Director Scot Beckenbaugh. Because of the number and importance of the unresolved issues, I recommended and the parties agreed to a bargaining schedule commencing last Friday and continuing for...
BOSTON, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- National Floors Direct announced today it is pursuing damages on an unfair business practices claim against Chicago-based Empire Today in the wake of a jury's verdict in U.S. District Court that found Empire abused the legal process when it sued National Floors Direct. National Floors Direct - based in Avon, Mass. - began serving New England in 2006. Over the past five years the company's next-day service model and "15% price guarantee" have provided...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service Director George H. Cohen issued the following statement today on the ongoing labor negotiations between the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association: "I have had separate, informal discussions with the key representatives of the National Football League and the National Football League Players Association during the course of their negotiations for a...
NEW YORK, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ConvergEx Group, a leading technology company, today announced that it saw significant client growth for its patented ADR (American Depositary Receipt) technologies in 2010. In the past year, ConvergEx added over 50 ADR trading clients and saw its revenue grow 35%. With the addition of new emerging markets including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Turkey, ConvergEx continued to expand the number of available markets for electronic ADR conversion...
NEW YORK, January 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Energtek Inc., a leader in hi-tech natural gas solutions and Adsorbed Natural Gas (ANG) technology, today announced that the company remains in continued negotiations to merge its fully-owned Israeli subsidiary Energtek Products Ltd. with Biri Barashi Land Works, Development, Infrastructure & Roads Ltd., a public company on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TLV: BIRI). In the Memorandum of Understanding signed with Y.H. Dimri...
