Dwight
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This could be the case. Could be their negotiating team mishandled themselves and got things painted into a corner. *shrug* Would not be the first. Maybe there was a screw-up between management negotiation team and the Baker’s team with dick-moves from around the table, that is pretty common source of negotiations reaching an intractable state.I honestly believe that they never negotiated in good faith. They smelled blood on the water, and thought they could milk the company for every cent they could. However, the underestimated how bad the financial trouble was.
But the evidence for being convinced of that is, to put it mildly, sparse.
The Teamsters statements fit perfectly fine with the above, but just as well as simply with having obtained a more acceptable to them contract for themselves (for whatever reason) so, having something than they felt was better than nothing, had a vested interest in the Bakers conceding that had nothing to do with (and could be at odds with) the Baker’s interest.
Really the later really would be the case even in your scenario suggestion, too.
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