USAPA had a professional negotiator and it didn't work for the rank and file simply because, unlike management who pays Jerry Glass's and all the other junior managers under Parker that They work for him and if they can't sell it to Parker (and by proxy the BOD) then they do something different.

The APA BOD work for 15,000 individuals and the NAC have to sell it to the BOD who then approve/disapprove. If they disapprove and they don't explain it to their constituents properly and/or the constituents want it they will recall their reps and get ones in that will approve it. Management doesn't have democratic problems like the union does.

That's why if you can't withhold money from the company you have no leverage.....unless you strike. And no one is going to do that for quite some time.