11. The workers want the government to honor a 1993 wage contract it signed with them. 12. Typically, merchant wage contracts specified seamen s responsibilities while the ship was at port. 13. "We have a wage contract and we're sticking to it," 14. He said employers planned to form associations that would not be bound by current wage contracts . 15. That contract is separate from the 1996 wage contract that runs until the end of December. 16. Lowe advocated indexation as applied to bonds, but also to wage contracts and land rents. 17. Germany wage contracts are negotiated for entire sectors, by region, instead of company by company. 18. Second, nominal wage cuts would be difficult to put into effect because of laws and wage contracts . 19. In Germany, wage contracts are usually negotiated on the regional level, but coordinated on the national level. 20. "There can be no wage contracts that don't jibe with the economic environment,"
