In the long run, however, it will work out cheaper to get a local contract.

They will have a flexible local contract focusing on the needs of their patients.

Post-trainees have reported securing nearly 500 federal, state and local contracts worth more than $112 million.

The company was barred from receiving any future local, county or state contracts.

Some locals will not be voting on the pact until their own local contract votes are held, he said.

The measure, which has already cleared the lower house, would weaken national unions' ability to negotiate local contracts.

The teachers are qualified, being expatriates, residents, or on local contracts.

The job transfer issue prevented resolution of the remaining four local contracts.

The company believed that if these four local contracts could be settled, the strike would end.

That's always good for a few bags of gold and a great many important local contracts.