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<blockquote data-quote="Undertow" data-source="post: 5650623" data-attributes="member: 4550">Certainly sound reasoning and attempts to paint a portrait of the delivery guy wearing Browns as a greedy lazy freeloader back in &#039;97 didn&#039;t go over well with the public.&nbsp; But O&#039;Brien hasn&#039;t been shy about framing this negotiation as just the first battle in a bigger war and places like Black Rock and Vanguard have stakes in companies that they probably wouldn&#039;t be to excited about finding out have potential exposure to seeing good portions of it&#039;s labor forces being open to union representation.&nbsp; Expecting some big institutional investors to somehow come in and save the boardroom from itself in the 9th inning just doesn&#039;t seem anywhere near a failsafe to me.&nbsp; The Deepwater Horizon had a blowout preventer and it&#039;s presence probably made people feel safer right up until the point it was needed to prevent a disaster.How much does the board really care about the customers?&nbsp; They&#039;ve known ORION has been and still is a detriment to service for over 10 years now yet it&#039;s still here.&nbsp; The 1-800 number call centers have been the chief complaint among my customers for perhaps even longer than that and yet there&#039;s been no improvement on that front either.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think it&#039;s all that clear there&#039;s any line upper management won&#039;t cross in an attempt to have the last word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undertow, post: 5650623, member: 4550"] Certainly sound reasoning and attempts to paint a portrait of the delivery guy wearing Browns as a greedy lazy freeloader back in '97 didn't go over well with the public. But O'Brien hasn't been shy about framing this negotiation as just the first battle in a bigger war and places like Black Rock and Vanguard have stakes in companies that they probably wouldn't be to excited about finding out have potential exposure to seeing good portions of it's labor forces being open to union representation. Expecting some big institutional investors to somehow come in and save the boardroom from itself in the 9th inning just doesn't seem anywhere near a failsafe to me. The Deepwater Horizon had a blowout preventer and it's presence probably made people feel safer right up until the point it was needed to prevent a disaster. How much does the board really care about the customers? They've known ORION has been and still is a detriment to service for over 10 years now yet it's still here. The 1-800 number call centers have been the chief complaint among my customers for perhaps even longer than that and yet there's been no improvement on that front either. I don't think it's all that clear there's any line upper management won't cross in an attempt to have the last word. [/QUOTE]

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