I've had this experience and what it does for the management-side negotiators is freeze their ability to make compromises at a bargaining table, because they have to look over their shoulder and wait for permission from someone else. If that someone else doesn't have the responsibility for the outcome, as my friend from the PSAC says, productivity and morale start to suffer because you're dragging bargaining on and people don't have a settlement. The effect of it is profound.
The great effect of collective bargaining is that you get it done, you get it ratified, you get it over. We do that about 96.8% of the time and we get good settlements. The longer bargaining goes on—you've seen it here yourselves, all of you—the less productive it is. It has an effect in the workplace, but it also has an effect on the outcome of productivity going forward after the agreement, because the employer side doesn't take responsibility for the outcome anymore. Someone else decided for them and it doesn't work—it just doesn't work.