Originally Posted by Sink r8

I'm not sure I would do it quite like this, and maybe Alfa has a point WRT timing. This is the classic sequence of events when something like this happens:

1) Someone on the internet reports an event and suggests an implication.
2) Someone else takes the ball and runs with it.
3) Someone with some other agenda jumps all over it to criticize the union, or the current people in the union.
4) Someone that's a close supporter of the union, or the current people in the union, jumps in for counter-insurgency and interference.
5) One of these two (above) starts calling the other one stupid.
6) Stupid follows-up with a "I know you are but what am I?"
7) Someone jumps in once again to re-driect, and offers a legal ruling.
8) And someone else sets up expections: the union has to fight, it has to win, and it has to win now, now, now.
9) Everyone agrees: now, now, now is the time.
10) With the expectations thus set, disappointment is almost immediate, and lasting, because the union can't even meet to set a direction, or formulate an answer. By then, everyone in the union, or near the union is on the defensive, and consumed with calling everyone "stupid" that's calling them "panzies".

Personally, I don't care if the union takes a few days. I don't care if the process start local, with a little info from the reps, letting us know they're taking a look at this. Then the MEC can meet. They can talk about with the company. They can seek to find remedies and solution without jumping in the expectations game. They can do a little soul-searching, and a little strategic planning. They can be smart.

I just would like them, once in a while, to conclude from their soul-searching that it's OK to roll the dice on a skirmish, just to make sure the troops are still alert, and reassure us the officers still have some fight in them. I don't want knee-jerk reactions, and I don't need instant reactions either. I just think deliberate planning doesn't preclude ocasionally engaging. And I think a force that's got some fight in it might get some surprising results. But we'll never know if we never try.

This seems like a subject we should battle over.

Let's see what develops.