Originally Posted by PCL_128

What evidence do you have that ALPA advised any such thing? Attorneys don't run ALPA. Decisions are all made by pilots. Unfortunately, the attorneys usually know best, but pilots ignore them. I've been doing union work for a good while now. In my experience, pilots only listen to the advice of attorneys about 60% of the time. The other 40%, they usually end up regretting that they didn't. As someone who has observed scope negotiations first hand with some of ALPA's most senior attorneys in the room, I can tell you that there is never any pressure to concede scope. If anything, the attorneys encourage pilots to be very careful about trading scope.