Thanks, PB. Maybe it is a good thing that the two groups aren't flying together yet. The very structure of ALPA is set up to "divide and conquer" that's why ALPA National has no real power over the various MECs, why politics is all they can do in DC and why ALPA has been pretty ineffective at doing what unions are supposed to do--defend their members. Could they have done better, we'll never know. UAW is pretty united and they aren't doing so well, either. And who has heard of the United Steel Workers lately? Very difficult political situation and I'm a Republican.
GF