Highflyer,
I think that the tone and content of the Bassa clan is more diverse than you d like to accept.
As I've stated before I do not think that MissM's attitude is anywhere near as bad as miss wonker-something.
The trick is I guess to show the sneaky side of the unions as two-tone-blue just did about the posting by travelandtrouble on the rules (sorry, guidelines) on crew fatigue.
In the long run not even an union can get away from the truth, and i believe they will loose support from the MissM's of this world, who, from a misguided sense of sticking to a chosen path still belong to a union they disagree with more often than not.
Once the camel's back is broken, there will be an opportunity for new, positive and cooperative representation of the cc towards the management