No Busboy, that is not the intent of my post. As the smoke clears from this recent turmoil, a number of additional communiques have been published that still advocate the silencing of dissenting opinions and the dis-enfranchising of the membership at large in the process, placing all decision making power squarely in the hands of a 'few" who "know better". I am a strong proponent of the the democratic process and always have been. I also believe in the current Union model of meaningfully engaging the Co. on our desired issues in a forthright, mature business like approach that seeks to find the best solutions for us while at the same time keeping our Company (whom your and all of our fortunes are unbreakably linked) competitive in the world market. Any notion of "Old School My Way or the Highway" trade unionism is not only obsolete but ultimately self destructive given our current global economy. I have no illusions about our Mgmts desire to remove our Organized body from the property, that is their job. But at the same time, we are here, and as long as we are Mgmt must engage us in negotiations for our contract plain and simple. What I will not stand for is secretive divisive machinations by any of our elected Reps. These situations are not in your, my or any of our collective interests and must be confronted and dealt with by us. Also, I used the "we" in the royal plural, sense meaning the entire crew force, not some imagined "Stalinesque" cabal.