ALPA isn’t going to do anything more for you guys than any other union. ALPA National is all about the money, their money. They love to collect dues and talk about standing firm, but when it’s actually time to take a stand they tuck tail and run. They were all talk leading up to the Polar strike until the pilots got released. Once they realized that they were going to have to spend more money than they would recover from such a small group they suddenly encouraged the pilots to take the companies offer. That offer was worse than the contract that they were trying to replace. The problems at Atlas are with who you have to negotiate with. I can’t speak to who you have in your union trying to negotiate with them since I’m not there. If you’re not happy with their methods I’d bet that you’d be better off replacing individual negotiators than replacing the IBT with something else.