Well said Archos - BUT!
Archos - fully agree with everything you say which makes it even more infuriating when the Foamy Coolings' of this World come along and in a manner akin to the Gestapo and SS proceed "on orders" to go out of their way to screw up something that wasn't broken.
Whenever someone says to me "The Company did this" or "The Company did that" - I always ask which person in the "Company" they are referring to. People make changes - not inanimate "Companies"
As a lifelong avoider of Unions, I can't help but feel sometimes that there are occasions when a united voice is the only way to beat this sort of crap. It has worked in the North Sea and it could work here too if not hijacked by the looney PC Brigade.
Trog