JL's a good man and frankly I trust him more than I trust some of our MEC leaders. Heck, his email should have been written by DW but we are sorely missing something in that area.
Give up his ALPA membership? What do you want to be like IPA and have all managers be non-members? These discussions are getting ridiculous - sometimes you have to take things at face value and JL hasn't proven wrong on this yet. I'm not willing to throw away all common sense and negotiate on your terms. If it were up to some on this board, there would never be any negotiations. Thing long term here and the future of FDX ALPA among other things.