11. It also fought for agricultural credit and collective contracts . 12. The dubbers'main demand is a collective contract , but they also want more money and royalties. 13. A collective contract for petroleum workers expired in November. 14. Judicial employees demanding a new collective contract walked off the job Tuesday, paralyzing most courts nationwide. 15. Venezuelan public school teachers and the government signed a new collective contract , doubling entry level salaries. 16. This means that the collective contract is actually more like a law than a union agreement. 17. Workers paralyzed the oil industry in October in a four-day strike to protest frozen collective contract negotiations. 18. The Bank of Mexico recommends that companies not exceed inflation when negotiating collective contracts for their workers. 19. PDVSA workers, who signed a new collective contract last month, earn about 8, 500 bolivars a day. 20. Oil workers paralyzed the oil industry in October during a four-day strike to protest frozen collective contract negotiations.