Re: Who is This Man

These points were not written by the current union folks. They were written by Joe Dassaro a former union President who now works on the agency side. They were first used in a steward manual he wrote around 1998 or 1999 and later put on the old website he ran. You can actually visit the old site by going to the internet archive at www.archive.org and type in the current web address of nbpc1613.org or the old one of borderpatrol1613.org which was the former site.

If I remember right, he said he wrote most of them but also grabbed a few from somewhere else.

Re: Do you really think this is the exception?

While most unions would not post a code of conduct contrary to the one posted by the one cited in Bob's most recent article, the reality of their conduct is considerably different and Bob has, again, hit a nerve by daring to highlight a problem that many in the LR community know about but rarely discuss knowing it is not the politically correct position to take. It isn't his anti-union bias but his several decades of experience that reflect the reality of working in labor relations in the federal workplace that provide the background for his articles. Unfortunately, most federal employees never see these type of articles other than on the Fedsmith site as most news outlets choose not to mention anything that will result in the numerous charges of "anti-union bias" such as your rant has done.

Keep up the good work, Bob. The more complaints like this one you see probably mean you have hit a nerve with more truth and experience behind it than others will ever admit to.