[Superman]

Good comments. Good dialogue. Thank you both for your tolerance of my directness.

Yes, I am blessed with a labor relations job where the labor community is terrific. Seattle is a fairly strong labor town, but we simply do not have the bull**** going on that you have in places like Chicago. I have a colleague in Las Vegas and those guys get along even worse. Again, I am blessed with a terribly cooperative and synergistic labor/management community. Here, if the contractor will partner with Labor, Labor will pave the path to profits with gold bricks.

Still, there is a good deal of misbehavior in the labor movement, and in any other organization. You have probably heard lately that there is a rift between some of the members of the National Building Trades, as well as within the AFL-CIO. Indeed there is. And it boils down to whether the old-hat way of doing things will survive, or whether the younger (union) leadership will come into power with their more innovative ideas. Stay tuned. Those national organizations are turning parallel with the commercial flow, and I am hopeful that after the painful shakeout there will be a more productive direction.

I don't think we disagree on anything really, gentlemen. I see labor/management relations work EXTREMELY well, and I see them work EXTREMELY poorly. Mercifully, in my market that choice is the employer's.