42 days of stand-by on a salary=stand-by credit. Does it not?
Like Keg says, no conditions were created in a vacuum. The company has had 94 years of often dud management and has the cumbersome award as a result.
When cowards shy away from the bargaining table and hire labour consultants instead, idiot ideas like the lock-out are concieved. They could have had concessions back then but elected to roll the dice instead. They lost 200 million and all of the things they could have won with some frank discussion.