Aldente,
I have worked for BALPA airlines and know exactly how their corrupt negotiations, and the advice they base these on works.
Corrupt because the BALPA way is the way of disenfranchising the members, trading their terms and conditions for the "reward" of a TRE /TRI job or management job. The hardliners on this forum have confirmed this is the MO by accusing me of selling my soul a la BALPA in the fight to avoid recognition: something the colleagues who know me, and the FR management, will tell you is completely and utterly false.