Actually, I want my very own seat at the table to represent MY unique interests. I will present a list with me on top and everyone else gets slotted in by inverse order of post count on APC.

In seriousness, to be fair to the Westies, the MOU does call for "lists in effect" to be merged and IMHO it would be reasonable to have a separate committee to represent each list. The so called "3rd listers" don't actually have a separate list, they are all on either the East or West list.

If USAPA was smart, they would have embraced this concept and called for separate USAPA committees to represent the east and west group in the protocol. Probably APA and the company would have accepted it, then negotations reach impass, then arbitration. That's where it's going anyway, might as well retain some semblance of control.

The danger in allowing APA to control the committees is they may find a way to stack the east and west merger committees with APA ringers.