yea, jw has been skulking about in union gigs since here first days at ua. she slipped into the training center soon after being hired because she had flown the 757 at her foreign carrier and the tk managers thought this qualified her to teach 757. at tk, she dived into union politics. she's been die hard into union work, and very close to some of the mec chairs who gave away sooooo much over the past fifteen years. the comments about her style and personality coming through at new hire presentations are not at all surprising. sorry to the new hires being subjected to that crap. that said... some great people do work in the union. the tough part is parsing the good folks from the political types. good luck with that !