1.   Charles Fanniel, the union president, would prefer the comfort of guaranteed jobs for his employees.

2.   And he will huddle with teachers union president Day Higuchi, local and state politicians and high-ranking LAUSD administrators before Friday.

3.   And nobody, with the possible exception of union president Patrick Ewing, was more criticized.

4.   And the union president would not want to hear what Oakley might say.

5.   Anxious union presidents are now looking for more energetic leadership and more effective strategies to revive the American labor movement.

6.   As opposed to the Mavericks, there were such yo-yos as union president Patrick Ewing of the Knicks.

7.   As union president, Ewing had spent the last six months in a boardroom discussing revenue sharing.

8.   At the same time, several players were moving to oust Hunter and positioning former union president Isiah Thomas to step in, according to some reports.

9.   Besides Ewing, the other Knicks included former union president Buck Williams, former vice president Herb Williams, Allan Houston and John Starks.

10.   Bob Chase, the union president who supported the job performance option, said he did not take the vote as a rebuke of union leadership.