if the law is going to hang out a union if they stop picketing while considering a deal, then resumption of any type of work until a ratified CA is off the table forevermore.

This 100%.

When the deal’s done, we should be walking off the site, 100% tools-down, pending a new agreement. No deal, no work. But no one wants to disrupt things, even if this really means no one got off their ass and got a new deal in place in time so it’s totally not our fault.

So we stay on-board as a good-faith, and it takes a YEAR to get a new deal.

We need terms. If I need to pay a late fee on my hosting bill if I miss a payment, we need a ‘slow git’ tax for working after the contract ends pending a new one, now the good-faith is gone.