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This was never about the union being unwilling to sacrifice or accept concessions. In fact, the Union has agreed to numerous financial concessions in the past including a 5% pay cut and years without raises. What this was entirely about was the unions opinion (now proved by law) that a city ordinance does not superceed a CBA and as such, any changes must be negotiated. When the city failed to negotiate and instead chose to impose changes unilaterally, the Union had no choice but to defend the sanctity of contract law and file a grievence. If the city could write an ordinance and superceed the CBA here, then there was nothing stopping them from writing an ordinance and violating contract law at will on any number of issues going forward.