Bruce - "isn't it just !" Thank your chosen deity for that. I'll take you up on the PM offer, maybe. Keep your eye out for them.
NSF - For the record, Bruce is a BRK pilot and seems ill disposed towards towards BALPA's recognition, I am not a pilot nor do I have any hand in aviation these days other than SLF. I just happen to dislike the spreading of distorted anti-union propaganda which is why I got into this in the first place.
Hopefully this will now be kept between us as, essentially, I think we are actually arguing the same the same case but from different starting points.
Without trying to inflame anything here I would suggest that all look at the OP then look at post #12, there is a link to the REMA site.