Wow, its good to hear from all the waterskis. I just met a guy who was a brother-in-law to our old favorite Director of Ops, initials MW. When he told me I couldn't stop laughing and he then told me "you would be laughing if that a*# hole was your brother-in-law".
When I had my carpet dance in Zenders office that one time, they supplied me with a lawyer who only wanted to give in to the company - which I went against and won.
LPA National has no interest in Trans States. History has proven it. When Trans States was about to go on strike (99 or 2000), senior ALPA members pressured the then-MEC to stop the strike vote, because it would had been a financial disaster for TWA. The vote went ahead anyway, and was quite successful (99%), the highest vote in ALPA's history. The owner backed down, and the pilots got what they wanted - Industry Average.