Escalation at the work place

I have a manager that is laxidasical.
Nice fella, family man, likes to golf, loves his kids and wife, goes to church, volunteers, moral and socially he's a great guy.

He sucks as a manager, the inmates are running the asylum and there's only a few of us that have gotten together and talked about our concerns at loosing our jobs if something doesn't change soon.

Due to my managers negligence, he's lost a few contracts over the past couple of years. Millions of dollars worth of losses. We just lost another one.
Sadly, the reasons for loosing them weren't that our competitors made them an offer they couldn't refuse or had a product that was far superior than ours. It was because they weren't being served.

My manager doesn't like confrontation and despite being a good guy, not great, but good, he goes out of his way to avoid anything that looks like confrontation.
Because of this personality flaw, the other employees do whatever they want without any direction, correction, or consequences.

Myself and my fellow 'sane' employees have talked to him about it in very gentle, guiding tones. It's not clicking for him. He wants to have another meeting to tell the other employees to stop doing what he's allowed them to do. This will be at least the tenth meeting like this in the past few years, so today I have the honor and privilege of sending an email to my managers manager. I'm cc'ing all my fellow co workers who are concerned about the work too so this doesn't have the appearance of a wronged, angry, female employee.

I'm a little apprehensive. When a line is draw and sides are chosen, it will cause ripples. At my age, I'm tired of dealing with ripples but.... I'm a stronger swimmer and love the water.

Have a great day everyone!!