Respect From Peers Corns may not be on good terms with the District council, but he has earned the respect from many of his peers. I have never had a moment's doubt that Alex has had the best interests of the rank and file at heart. Of course, Corns has tremendous support from his members. Workers from the local who spoke to the Independent talked about their representative's toughness. Once most workers get into his position, they immediately start drinking from management's teat.
Corns also has the respect of many of the city's union representatives.
Dan Fross, business agent for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Local 6, said he gotten to know Corns through a policing process in which eight or nine union representatives walk onto a job together to see if the project foreman is using union workers. Many reps slip into a kind of managerial role once they get elected, but not Alex. For him it's all about getting workers involved in the process. Corn's assaults on the union's management structure have attracted the attention of conservatives looking for ammunition against labor. At the end of August, Corns was used as a source in the right-wing national publication The Weekly Standard.