If you want to send a message, try Western Union.

I suspect they felt that taking a very hard line would send a message to the union. Instead the message that they sent was to dig in your heels.

That would have been the wrong message to send to Justin,

We have to send the message that this is wrong.

I'm of the Samuel Goldwyn school of writing: If you need to send a message, call Western Union. Any messages people take away from my books are the ones they see in them.

my job is not to send a message.