Shorty,
I often agree with you, but this time you are plain wrong.
If the AOA managers cannot control the 49ers why on earth would the company want to talk to them at all?
Why should a 49er or anyone else be "controlled?". Hong Kong may now be part of communist China, but is it your suggestion that people now have no freedom of speach? Or that a union has the right and power to curb a persons legitimate right of expresstion?
Cp managment can't take any critisism with out getting huffy? Sacking someone is a pretty heavy form of critisism, I would have thought a right of reply was a right in ANY society.