Remember in the years prior to the merger, there was a grievance filed on behalf of the Pinnacle pilots over the purchase and expansion of Colgan. A grievance that Pinnacle won, yet as soon as Colgan became ALPA, it died quickly. For all intents and purposes, Colgan going to ALPA saved all their jobs at this point, as the merger would have gone much differently had that not happened. A glaring example of the conflict of interest in ALPA.