the apprentice

You are absolutely correct the company is already proficient at breaking the CBA and thats exactly what they need to do break it into very small pieces, put it through a shredder, and then incinerate it because the CBA is poorly written, outdated, and not scalable. You need scalability in order to grow. If you bound yourself strictly to the CBA then you are a simple monkey pushing buttons. Again think outside the box bring some value added to the table be intuitive take ownership of your idea and then become a leader and implement it. The union and CBA concept we work under in todays environment is outdated unless you want to work 5, 7 or 10 years from now under the same condition you currently work under while the remainder of the business world is outpacing growth expectations while you are still sitting in the relative same position you have been wondering why you have not been able to advance. These CBA's needed to be shorter term they need to be scalable, they need to be flexible and most importantly they need to be negotiated to be punitive in nature because with out this the company will continue to violate the terms of the agreement as they want to meet there needs.