The article has highlights of several attempts by pilot groups to do the same. I can't cut and paste from my copy, but the bottom of page 24 and top of 25 are interesting.

It's not the AA pilots or the APA. I wouldn't trust any group to control the whole process. They sure wouldn't trust USAPA to run it and I wouldn't either in their shoes.

I actually think that having a west merger committee would help drive a stake in the Nic. The MOU/MTA call for the use of seniority lists in effect. The west is calling for their own merger committee because of that. Okay, so they acknowledge that the Nic is not in effect, and never has been, but would then argue that is should be used?