3. The chairman of the union's grievance committee has come to you for advice. Employee Curth has been discharged for falsifying an application for worker's compensation. He has filed a grievance which has been processed through the first three steps of the contractual grievance procedure; it remains unsettled, and, if unsettled, arbitration would be available at the union's demand. Although the grievance committee believes there is some merit to Curth's grievance, it has concluded that it ought not proceed to arbitration. This judgment was based on the fact that the Curth grievance is fact-specific, that an arbitration victory will therefore not be of important precedential value, and, most important, that the union is in serious financial straits and an arbitration will consume a substantial proportion of its funds