Bingo! Now is perhaps the last feasible time for them to seek and get payback from (though I would argue they’re thinking of their previous efforts—ok, such as it was— in arrears, rather than any going-forward type of commitment to) Barry.
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Yeah. I think this is their last chance in the near future to grab what they can.
Politically, we benefit, because parents like their free babysitting, and the typical union claims of being underpaid don’t garner sympathy, these days.