Finis, you are correct sir! Our employee group has become far more productive since CH11 through the measures you mentioned. That productivity equates profits at the corporate level. Now our union is faced with a dilemma. Do they fight to "take it back" which would roll back the productivity clock an I think would be harmful to our ability to compete, or do they take our productivity gains and and use them to increase the percentage of the work that our union members do?
Here is where i see the junior/senior fissures. Both groups are looking forward in a way but each has a different perspective on what is more important. The union's job is to blend the two extremes and pursue a strategy that benefits the whole, without sacrificing a part.