Despite practice-related recommendations being made to management by these groups, however, management never had demonstrated it felt any obligation to accept nursing recommendations. Therefore, the CBU suspected shared governance was proposed as a model to merely give the appearance that the employer wanted staff input. Initially the CBU believed that in reality it was a mechanism to manipulate the union members into submission and limit the CBU's ability to grieve bad outcomes. The CBU’s rationale was that if one collaborated with management, one would be hard pressed to formally initiate grievance procedures should the need arise.