Yes, thanks Ocho. Seriously. To you and others that step up on our behalf every day, sacrificing your personal time so that we can enjoy the remarkable enhancements in compensation, benefits and QOL, my sincerest thanks for what you do. We all owe you and the other volunteers a debt of gratitude for the THANKLESS job you do for others. There will always be critics and nay-sayers, but to have stepped up and fought for others, without the protections of a contract, speaks to your character. Steaks on me.

ECAM, thou presumeth much. As a career union man, you should know better. Easy to anonymously trash-talk the efforts of those who toil endlessly on our behalf. Keep it up and see what our representation starts to look like, if at all.

Signed, someone even older than you.


"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the“ arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”


― Theodore Roosevelt