Nice story, I love fiction.
How's this: USAPA is gone before seniority is even looked at. The APA is going to manage this integration, just like FUKU was trying to do with east and west. But, your clock ran out because, well, you only had almost six years to pass that DoH list which never saw the light of day. Hmmmm. Welp, that's yesterday's news, just like Bradford and his bunch.
We at least have a lot to look forward to, and I am sure the APA will be fair to us all. They do have a tendency to not regurgitate already settled labor agreements (like, say, TWA/AA and probably AWA/U). It's better that way- following the rules and all. That's probably foreign to a lot of you, as Judge Silver identified in her latest opinion.
Remember, be a good union pilot!
Oh, and "Wide range of reasonableness"