You'd rather have an underfunded organization with no infrastructure go up against a management team that is hostile to unions of all kinds to fight for a contract for you? You'd rather spend years spinning your wheels, fighting the good fight for a contract, getting outspent 10 to 1 at every turn before you finally realize that it's not going to work and you choose to affiliate yourself with a national union? Interesting choice.

The goal here is to get a CBA. The fastest route to that is with a national union that has funding, resources and experience. Why reinvent the wheel? Get a CBA as quickly as possible, and then take stock of the service you're getting from a national union that has helped you do so and if appropriate, run a drive to start your in house then, after you've established a proper CBA. The national organization just lends resources, I don't care if it's ALPA, Teamsters, NFLPA or the Seamstress Union, we just need a CBA as soon as possible and an upstart in house union is a poor way to go about it.

Why would you want to waste time that could be spent negotiating a contract on housekeeping items like fundraising, and hiring attorneys and SMEs while spending money out of your tiny little starter war chest to counter the union-busting campaign that your multi billion dollar company and their consultant groups like Ford and Harrison and MWW are running against you to keep membership and unity low.