Got Dignity? Want Integrity? Get a Union! (with poll)

This is the "real time" story of a union organizing campaign, pervaded with the ideals of the First Amendment as carried out by our Fourth Estate.  As was noted in a Diary by E Love, management at the Santa Barbara News-Press -- a venerable, well-read long-established local institution serving a wealthy town with Spanish-tiled adobe charm 90 minutes from LA, and studded with prominent celebs - has been on a rampage, trashing the wall that's supposed to separate the paper's editorial stance from the news reporting in the field, leading to the mass departure of editors, followed thereafter by a continued rush to the exits by veteran columnists and reporters.