I haven't had one request from anybody to change my position. We're having a fairly good discussion about these issues. A lot of unions want to tell horror stories about how environmentalists are trying to shut down their industries. You hear horror stories about what happened in the Pacific Northwest with the spotted owl and how Greenpeace has plugged up a drainpipe, invaded property or prevented ships from docking. The reality is that the labor movement has an obligation to engage the environmental community in a dialog, rather than expecting the environmental community to engage us.
Communication is two-way street.
With communication comes an understanding of what the threshold issues are. The one thing the labor movement ought to understand is that as we're getting our brains beat in politically, the environmental community can be a powerful ally. We ought to treat them that way. Even though that lockout ended in 1990, we continued to support that labor-neighbor project and continued to support the environmental community in that area. The network got started because we recognized that we had allies in the community.