I know it would cost money in the short term, but I wonder how productive it would be to have ALPA take multiple companies' contracts to the table at once, hammer out the details where all is the same everywhere and then take it in front of a judge for a declaratory judgement on the details that management would want to manipulate just to insure that they couldn't.

I know this has never been done before but we ARE looking for better answers than status quo.

Just thinking out loud.