Your response to that be "so you've been violating policy all this time?"

Union would be, grieve it and we may get back to you at some point in time when you no longer care.

I'm pretty sure CA are the same. In my case I got to ask for pretty much everything I wanted , AM/PM , weekends off etc and to my surprise she built me a custom line with all my requests, was better than bidding. I'm sure it was only possible because we were overstuffed