Bringing an end to the argument. I’ll make up some numbers. Let’s say there’s 2000 grievances. That more than likely represents 7-10 actual language violations with some outliers. There’s 4 basic ways to close these. They legally can’t just disappear without a resolution.

Closed in favor of the union. Pretty self explanatory.

closed in favor of management. Self explanatory as well.

Withdrawn. Different ways this could happen.

part of a settlement agreement. Different ways as well.

Let’s now say there’s a TA and let’s say the language didn’t change. There’s no association group grievance. A remedy will be negotiated for anyone that has a grievance for that violation. Let’s just say that closes 300 grievances and the company pays 200k.

Let’s say there’s an association grievance and the language changes. A settlement agreement is negotiated. This could mean a remedy for everyone and/or management just agrees with our side and we get clarification on that language in the TA. You’ll see that in a TA.

rinse and repeat for the other 7-10 language violations.

Outliers. That’s why is 2 weeks and not 2 days. Let’s say there’s a reassignment that the company argues one example but it doesn’t quite fit the scenario. Same with the union. Similar example but doesn’t quite fit the scenario. The language gets clarified with a definition or another example. Depending on which way that goes will depend on the remedy paid to that grievance but more than likely there’s only 1 or 2 of those.