Another example of our working partnership at OPM, we recently conducted team building exercises for a group of our employees at Howard University, in Washington, participants were selected to represent all of the OPM family. We had senior managers and union officers, sure. Our new smoking policy is another specific issue where I think partnership has made a difference. Our union was willing to get involved in that along-side us, even though they knew it was a controversial issue with employees. They had employee meetings to air the different views, and we jointly authored the employee letter that announced our new policy.
Partnership helps in crisis as well.
You may be familiar with the recent water scare in our Nation's Capital. I use that term a lot. Actually, I'm not trying to be sentimental. You probably think some of the people in your family are wonderful, and there may be some who drive you crazy, but they're all family, whether they're like you or completely different. When it's dinnertime, everybody gets a plate and a chair, nobody's left out.