As I said at the outset, it's entirely a matter of balance, a balance of power.
When I sit down at the bargaining table with an employer, I'm not sitting down with someone who's above or below me, but rather with an equal. So we negotiate as equals.
However, power has to be balanced. Let's imagine that I demand something or that an employer asks me to make a concession, that we don't agree or that the employer tells me that, one way or another, we'll have to accept his conditions or else he'll impose a lockout and continue operating. As you can understand, that kind of situation completely alters the bargaining table dynamic. That's what has to be rebalanced.
In a society of laws such as ours, where everyone has an equal chance, everyone must be provided with the same tools, the same “weapons”, as it were. It's important to reestablish the balance of power.That's how you stabilize labour relations and deal on an equal footing.
There's an imbalance right now, and that's what's changing the situation.