Vac,
The Polaroids were welcomed to the group the day after Atlas Air Inc used the Atlas profits (which could have been used to pay Atlas Pilots profit sharing) to purchase Polar. Atlas pilots offered to put your then communications committee chair (Johnson?) on the Atlas communications committee and actually looked forward to sharing the pain with, and garnering help from, another group of ALPA pilots. Merc has been over the history several times with you and others - suffice to say that you spit in Atlas pilots faces. And have continued to do so. So if the second welcome was a long time coming you will just have to deal with it.
Your problem is that you have been combating this for a while yourselves as you claim, but at the expense of the Atlas pilots. Instead of working with the Atlas pilots you have chosen to alienate them.
You claim the Atlas pilots do not support you? And are in bed with management? Perhaps it is time you stepped back and took a look again at the history.
Polar had less than a months worth of cash left when Atlas bought them. Atlas upstreamed profits from Atlas Air to AAWWH to purchase Polar. You would not have a place to go to work if Atlas pilots had not been forced to sacrifice for you - beginning with that step. It has continued for the last four years. EVERYTHING you have gotten you have gotten at the Atlas pilots expense - EVERYTHING. Airplane, jobs, your pay raises (both the 3% and the 10%) came at the expense of the Atlas pilots. The one time you were asked to support Atlas pilots - your MEC chair conned us. You continually blame all of your problems on the Atlas pilots. And you continue to delay delay delay - keeping them from the contact they deserve. No Atlas pilot I know wants to merge with you. None that I know of want to fly or share the same cockpit with you.
If it is so terrible for you then maybe it is time you all vote with your feet and leave the Atlas Pilots to deal with Atlas management.