Virginexcess,
Great post.
Fundamentally, what you are proposing is the US ALPA style of organisation, which AFAP domestic pilots refused to consider before the AFAP OSB became AIPA.
Given the "attitudes", I would think that AIPA members would take a lot of convincing that AFAP (members and industrial staff) have really turned over a new leaf.
Entrenched cultures are very hard to reform.
Tootle pip!!