Pardon my assumptions and I’m not trying to be confrontational but it sounds like you’ve never worked in a corporation (non pilot), or have particular depth of insight as to how upper level management works.

There are decision makers and non decision makers when it comes to billion dollar decisions like employee CBA’s, acquisitions, etc. More importantly there are typically only a few of these people. If these few individuals were tied up with a much larger project (teamsters) company would have sent the non decision makers to sit in their place. Sure, it might have been somewhat productive but realistically not. This B-team satisfied their legal requirement to negotiate and nothing more. Think sudoku puzzles. Waste of everyone’s time. It ain’t bs, it’s how corporate America works.

Again, there’s been no supporting evidence that this is incorrect, only that “it’s bs,” / an ‘I know better,’ mentality.