It finally dawns on me now, looking at cptvac's posting.
Polar is scared about the Atlas move to Teamsters.
Polar's purchased (by election vote) influence of Pres. Prater to keep a thumb on the Atlas council by removing funding while inequitably providing Polar more council funding, the bureaucratic stalling of the merger, filing grievance after grievance using outside lawyers requiring more National funding, and etc... It will render the current behind the scenes sabotage of the Atlas council by Polar and ALPA National pretty much nullified.
Putting us at least back on equal terms again and they don't like that.
Heck, I would vote Teamsters just so I wouldn't be funding Polar's legal fees used against me from my dues.