Sorry to jump in so late, but to go back to Bakela's question about ALPA's stance - ALPA's members are ALL very important to it. Unfortunately communication is a 2-way street .....
From what could be gathered, ALPA wanted to instruct its' attorneys to take whatever action is necessary to safeguard members' rights and jobs if they refuse to go Abidjan. The ALPA members that are with Solenta then decided not to go ahead as they did not want to make their identities known to management. ALPA cannot go ahead with action if the members want to stay anonymous.
Sad.