BA means business agent, not business associate. Generally BA's do not pass out cards, the people that do that are called organizers. Maybe you should turn in your card as a public act of defiance, stand up for yourself, be a free thinker.
While at work share you distrust for the union with your co-workers come on Mr. freethinker come out of the closet. I think you won't because you can't, because you are not what you imply you are.
Agent... Associate... Same gosh darn thing. I know they are not the ones who pass out cards. They are the that are responsable for the number of card carriers they have. They are the ones who tell the organizers what to do.
And as far as the "freethinker" thing. Nothing that I have said was told to me by upper managment to say. I thought of it all on my own.
Who am I... I can tell you this much, because if I tell you who exactly I am... then why do we use cool screen names. I am a line driver who drives the highways and byways of this great United States and I DO NOT WANT TO BE IN MANAGEMENT... WHy... Because I make more money then all of the managers by driving with out the head aches. And I have never implied anything.