Yes, Brother ABFer, ...and can we be subtly talked into convincing ourselves that ABF needs our charity..(read "concessions"), and can they recruit the leadership of the IBT to promote that message? The damage that the Teamsters leadership inflicted on themselves during the "beg-back" by aligning themselves.....or falling for....ABF management's message of doom and failure if we didn't vote for concessions in the middle of the contract..an "emergency", we were told... and then ABF's subsequent operation as business-as-usual when they had threatened closure and bankruptcy, made the IBT leadership's complicity in recommending us to vote for the concessions look either criminally compromised, or criminally duped and inept. Maybe that was ABF's ultimate strategy,....to shake our confidence in our leaders in Washington to negotiate a strong contract. Maybe I'm giving them credit for being more devious than they deserve.....but the end result is that we're not going to blindly follow all the recommendations emanating from Mr. Tyson Johnson's office. I would hope the IBT leadership has realized Mr. Johnson's integrity has been compromised..............or, what's worse, ....he was suckered into shilling for the company, and never knew they were lying to him about the true state of the companies' finances.