As the politico-socio-economic strength of each party changes over time, collective bargaining outcomes will as well, enlarging or reducing the number and impact of featherbedding rules on the employer.
The government claimed that the union's traditional methods of protecting its members' work jurisdictional strikes, resistance to work-displacing technology, and featherbedding were illegal restraints of trade.
But only until the soaring tuitions and taxes that fund this featherbedding for administrators of political correctness create a critical mass of parental and taxpayer disgust.