iPilot

You're assuming the goal was to win. I think the union knows all to well this amalgamation case is a technical lost cause. The only solution then is to just make winning so difficult and drawn out that the company simply has to take a different approach. The legal system is designed to force compromise and make judgements from the court a last resort for resolving conflict.

If Atlas is willing to lose a bunch of business and ruin its brand in the pursuit of amalgamation that's their call. The union can't force a deal if there's no budging the other side. All they can do is making amalgamation such a hollow victory that management decides to give it up. It's possible the union could still "win" as even if the amalgamation process was started today by the union publishing a seniority list it would still be years until that process is over. The union would fight and drag their feet every step of the way for sure. Is Atlas willing to wait that long?