Your articles have always been inspiring and this one in particular helped move me to action. The workplace environment where I am at courrently has corrupt leadership and it has been impacting the lives of everyone there. It had recently reached the point that the employees asked the labor union to petition for our representation. The company leaders believed that the employees were simply being greedy and wanted more money than the hotel could afford. In reality it was because all the ethical leadedship has left the company to move on. In my depadrment the Director frequently sent employees to work on the General Managers home while on company time. Safety rules and regulations were subject to the Directors intrerportation and those that did'nt stand up for themselves were forced into dangerous situations. I told the director on more than one occasion that I would have no part in any unethical actions whatsoever and was told that I misunderstood him. He stopped putting me in these situations but simply moved the activities to other co workers. I determined that something had to change about a month ago and asked Swamp Fox for some perspective and also asked myself what you would do in a similar situation. In the month of august you demonstrated a powerful example of doing what is right not what is convenient. I began looking for a leader not subject tothe authority of the General manager to share what I knew. I was unable to get through to the President of human resources for about 6 weeks when our department was called to a special manditory meeting. The meeting was attended by our entire department, our director,the general manager and the president of human relations for the entire company. In that meeting the general manager alleged that the union hadpromised us great pay increases and better benifits and hours and that they would be unable to deliver. He then asked for feedback as to what could be done to make things better and pull everyone together as a team. No responses came forward and he became hostile and said if nobody would speak up then we would all sufer while they negociated with the union. At that time I wanted to renain silent but knew that a leader needs to stand up even when it is uncomfortable. I told them that I felt the reason the union had been invited in was due to safety and regulatory concerns and not money.They began to probe for a specific example and I gave one example of a current safety violation that I made the director aware of on numerous occasions. After the meeting I went to human relations and shared in private many of the issues I had been told to participate in and others that I had wittnessed. The next day I was asked to share this information with top leaders in the company afterward they told me that to be actionable they would need others to step forward and give statements. To date two others have stepped forward with my encouragement and it looks like a workplace team can come together again. I do not believe any of this would have been possible without speaking up in front of the managers everyone feared and this would not have happened without the system you have developed and demonstrated. Thank you for your example. Bob