jack, my experience isn't typical as a self-assigning reporter during all of my first career but I think there's a case to be made that managers, executives and CEOs had less security than all those union members I met in Beverly Swamp. (They couldn't be blackballed from that luxurious golf course, either, because it was owned by United Steel Workers of America, too.) A collective agreement provided more protection from arbitrary action than had management who could be removed with a raised eyebrow for as little as a social impropriety or gaffe.