Just a little perspective here.
Atlas total annual ALPA council union budget is around $230K and has about 700 pilots. All Atlas grievances are done by in house ALPA contract administrators (lawyers) by ALPA National funding mandate. Atlas just recently received more budget cuts from National. All travel expenses were recently stopped. Previously agreed upon payment from ALPA National for expenses during our sympathy for Polar have gone unpaid. An amount in excess of the Atlas councils annual budget.
Polar on the other hand was approved (by most likely President Prater himself due to its amount)
$800k just for an outside lawyer one years billings which is outside normal ALPA guidelines. $800K for an outside lawyer before we even mention Polars normal budget for their council of @170 crewmembers. Looks like someone has a buddy in high places that don't like ACMI guys and an Executive Administrator from Northwest who has an interest in getting the DHL flying back to NWA.
Looks like ALPA National could get hit with a Duty of Fair Representation lawsuit (DFR) here.
Probably easier and quicker to just decertify ALPA since we have so many fair weather friends there and it looks like that is going to happen.
http://atlasforteamsters.com