Unity is what the company truely fears and what they have spent years chipping away at. In the end you have to present an offer as I can guarantee you there would have been pressure on the reps to present something or ‘people were going to leave the union’.
Interesting concept is unity. When you refer to unity do you mean everyone standing behind the one banner or do you mean unions working together for the common good of the pilots? You are absolutely correct when you state that the company fears the unity of the pilots and their representatives. What this document represents is the company's successful attempt to drive a wedge within the pilot group and one of the pilot unions happily signing on in a thinly veiled attempt to be the only union in the spotlight. The hypocrisy in the draft is that AIPA is expected to sign it when it has not been a party to its construction and has been sidelined by the company and the AFAP in the negotiation of it. This is as much a political document as it is an industrial one. If it is voted down then it will demonstrate that the pilots see the future more clearly than the people who negotiated it. If its voted up then that won't be an indication that the pilots are happy with the negotiators but more an indication of frustration and reluctant acceptance that they are pawns in a ridiculous industrial chess game.