Thanks for your comments Mark. There is a lot more background that I can add (but not in a public forum). I'm thinking that the parties involved will already know this is about them just by my first post and they most likely read this board. The smooth talking persuasive manager has latched onto an influential board member and are directing this. This building had a power hungry manager about 15 years ago who convinced the board to give him 3 jobs (Superintendent, Manager & Head of Security). He was put into the union for purposes of benefits.(As a result when he was gone we were forced to keep an extra union position.) The board went along with this. He fired & suspended at will and then went to the board for justification for his actions. It took us 3 years to get rid of this guy and the sitting board (3 seats each year). We don't want a recurrence of this after 10 years of running a tight ship. During interviewing for a new management company a few months ago, one company commented that our present manager is a former employee. When asked why he no longer worked there, we were informed the board objected to his controlling methods and the company lost the building and he was fired.