CLOSE Walt Disney World has reopened to the public but with many new precautions to help prevent the spread of COVID-19. Wochit For theme park regulars who have been enjoying the new, less-crowded Disney World, this will come as good news: The Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Chapek says it will […]
Negotiation
McConnell announces he will hold vote on small business loan bill
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced on Tuesday that Senate Republicans will attempt to move forward on a “targeted” coronavirus relief bill when the Senate returns to session next week — a sign that prospects for broad stimulus agreement have all but faded before Election Day. © Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images WASHINGTON, […]
Japan bracing for defense negotiation with U.S., report says
Oct. 13 (UPI) — Japan is looking to extend its current defense burden sharing agreement with the United States, as 2021 remains uncertain amid the coronavirus pandemic and the November U.S. presidential election. The Sankei Shimbun reported Tuesday the administration of Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is planning to extend the […]
Taliban no easy pushovers on the negotiation table
The talks in Doha between the Taliban and the Kabul regime that began seven months late on September 12 are in hiatus over disagreements on how to frame a code of conduct that will guide the broader talks. Their differences over the procedurals are wide. It is only after a […]
Asking China to participate in “trilateral arms control negotiation” infeasible: Chinese envoy
Asking China to participate in “trilateral arms control negotiation” infeasible: Chinese envoy Click to expand UP NEXT Video: A Chinese envoy says on Oct. 12, 2020 that asking China to participate in the “trilateral arms control negotiation” is unfair, unreasonable and infeasible. (Xinhua) “This is just a trick to shift […]
Nene Leakes Quits RHOA After ‘Tiring, Emotional’ Negotiations with Bravo
Leakes has left the building … again. Another “Real Housewives of Atlanta” star just gave up her peach, as OG NeNe Leakes just announced her exit. “I have been on an extremely, extremely long, exhausting, tiring, emotional negotiation,” she explained in a video posted to her YouTube page today. “There’s […]
Strike The Right Tone, Get The Right Compensation: Negotiation Tips For Executives
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Even at the executive level, negotiating salary and job offer can be intimidating. You’re only human and it may feel uncomfortable to ask for what you want outright, but if you don’t successfully navigate that discomfort you will be undervaluing and underselling yourself. According to economist Linda Babcock of Carnegie […]
NHL, union shouldn’t need new set of negotiations over money
I’m old enough to remember when the NHL and NHLPA reached an agreement on a six-year extension of the CBA that took into account worst-case scenarios regarding COVID-19’s impact on next season and the ones thereafter and provided an economic roadmap through the pandemic. That was this past July, by […]
U.S. appeals court rejects novel opioid settlement framework
(Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Thursday overturned a judge’s approval of a novel plan by lawyers representing cities and counties suing drug companies over the U.S. opioid crisis that would bring every community nationally into their settlement talks. FILE PHOTO: Bottles of prescription painkillers Oxycodone Hydrochloride, 30mg pills, […]
Format of the negotiation process remains unchanged
The format of the negotiation process remains unchanged which means that the parties are Azerbaijan and Armenia, Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov said at today’s briefing. “The status quo had to change and there was no pressure on Armenia. It became clear from the talks with the co-chairs that they […]
Philly teachers’ union considers work action to put pressure on contract negotiation
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia teachers’ union is considering working to the letter of its contract to ramp up pressure during contract negotiations. © Provided by KYW Radio Philadelphia The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers is emailing members this week to gauge whether they’d be willing not to do any […]
Negotiation Class Wants 6th Circ. Full Review In Opioid MDL
Law360 (October 9, 2020, 4:23 PM EDT) — A proposed negotiation class intended to seek settlements in the sprawling Ohio multidistrict litigation over the national opioid crisis is urging the Sixth Circuit for a full-court review of a decision last month striking the class down, saying the split panel went […]
Online Negotiation Strategies: Email and Video-conferencing
Online negotiation has become ubiquitous, as it allows us to negotiate across the miles cheaply and quickly. Yet online negotiation creates special challenges. With email, instant messaging, and text messages, negotiators typically lack visual, verbal, and other sensory cues to interpret how their counterpart is feeling. And while videoconferencing—via Skype, […]
Emotion and the Art of Negotiation
Idea in Brief The Problem Negotiators typically focus on strategy, tactics, offers, and counteroffers and don’t pay enough attention to how emotions affect what happens at the bargaining table. New Findings Research shows that we can regulate the anxiety, anger, excitement, disappointment, or regret we may feel and express in […]
Civil Procedure & Federal Courts Blog
Friday, September 25, 2020 Sixth Circuit Panel Reverses Certification of a Negotiation Class in the Opioid MDL Yesterday, the Sixth Circuit issued a 2-1 decision in In re National Prescription Opiate Litigation, a much-anticipated case about the certification of a negotiation class in the Opioid MDL. The majority reversed the […]
Philly teachers’ union puts pressure on contract negotiation
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia teachers’ union is considering working to the letter of its contract to ramp up pressure during contract negotiations. The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers is emailing members this week to gauge whether they’d be willing not to do any grading, planning or extra work […]
Belarus opposition leader says trial for Lukashenko subject to negotiation
© Provided by WION Belarus’ oposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya has claimed that the possibility of the Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko getting immunity instead of facing international trial is subject to negotiation to defuse the crisis in her country. Tsikhanouskaya has said she is considering filing a lawsuit against the ruler in the Intternational Criminal […]
Financial agreement gives state, Purple Line partners last chance at negotiation
The state of Maryland, the consortium building the Purple Line, and the bank that is financing the rail project have formally agreed not to take any steps to collapse or otherwise alter the parties’ massive financing arrangement until the end of October. This content was republished with permission from WTOP’s […]
After 30-day negotiation period, nursing home workers to strike
Posted: Oct 8, 2020 / 08:10 PM EDT / Updated: Oct 8, 2020 / 08:10 PM EDT DETROIT (WLNS) — Essential nursing home workers across metro Detroit, who had agreed in August to delay their planned strike by 30 days after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer urged SEIU Healthcare Michigan and nursing home […]
Belarus opposition leader says any trial for Lukashenko subject to negotiation
PRAGUE (Reuters) – Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya said on Thursday the possibility of immunity for Alexander Lukashenko, rather than facing any international trial, could be subject to negotiation to defuse the crisis in her country. © Reuters/HANNIBAL HANSCHKE Belarus opposition leader Tsikhanouskaya speaks to the media in Berlin The […]