The pragmatic approach is to let it slide, but wouldn't it have been fun for the BOD to have treated dave's contract as they have treated labor's?
They could have looked him in the eye, and said "Everything is on the table." (I crack myself up ! 😀 )
I suspect the real reason the BOD, including the labor members (is there a spine amongst them?), gave dave the walking around money is they all have their contracts and /or golden parachutes with U, and it would set a bad precedent (for them).
I mean, screwing the proles out of their cash is good business. Screwing the fat cats is communism.