Keep in mind 96% of all CAL pilots had very little knowledge of ALPA. Remember ALPA was broken in 1983 and so what you may call "naivety" I would call lack of experience.

I think the real difference here from my EXPERIENCE that that Legacy United had a more robust knowledge of and experience in all the ALPA muck and those of us who were IACP, all we knew was really IACP. Even our policy manual was essentially a carbon copy of the IACP policy manual, which ALPA approved. Why do you think the entire triploss scandal even happened under the ALPA watch? They were still playing by the IACP rule book. Not enough time for the pilot group and the leadership to get all the alpa stink they needed, so, yes, I definitely trusted the ALPA process and that tool-box do-hickey (whatever that is).