“We want to honor the concerns that have been raised, but our primary focus as a union isn’t affiliation or disaffiliation.” That sounds very much like condesc

“We want to honor the concerns that have been raised, but our primary focus as a union isn’t affiliation or disaffiliation.” That sounds very much like condescendingly downplaying the seriousness of affiliation as something they should not be worrying about, when in fact it is something that the members are concerned about.