Looking at it more objectively, what is going to be accomplished with USAPA? They are still going to have to merge the lists, they probably cannot cram down their version of the list because of the arbitration decision. If they agreed to binding arbitration, what part of "binding" don't they understand. I'm not on anybody's side but I have watched this stories play out over the last forty years and it always ends in tears.
Could they run the new contract argument into a strike (when, if USAPA is certified) and hope numbers favor them? Looks like the NW/DL merger is going nowhere because of the pilots, but that situation will end badly, if the economy and oil prices stay the current course.
GF
PS My point is that ALPA could have avoided a lot of pain in 1978 by ALPA National setting a simple merger policy based solely on seniority THEN! It is not possible now after the TW/AA, AL/AW, PA/National, PA/DL mergers. Too much blood on the floor, but it would have worked. And I argued against it then on the EA MEC, thought it impossible in 1989.