[gruez]

>But it indicates both sides had bargaining power.

>It does not indicate this. Consider an extreme example.

>Labor: We need a $5 an hour raise. Management: We will give you $0.01 raise.

Well, no because if they had no bargaining power management could have told them to fuck off, or pay them even less. "Had bargaining power" =/= "had the upper hand"

[synetic]

Pick a dollar amount greater than $0.01 then in my example. Pick the smallest value such that you believe it provides an example of where a compromise is reached but the compromise does not indicate relatively equal bargaining power.

[gruez]

The claim you responded to was "both sides had bargaining power", not "relatively equal bargaining power".

[synetic]

In the original example I gave a compromise was made. Namely the $0.01 increase in pay. I claim one side didn’t really have bargaining power. Do you believe all instances of compromise indicate bargaining power on both sides? I don’t. Sometimes one side budges very little and has way more power than the other. So much so that it’s not accurate to say both sides had bargaining power.