Don't start changing your tune now 700. I already see in this post that you are. From the very beginning you have said that the NMB will conduct the election, it's all through this thread. We all know the NMB will have to get involved to cert the new alliance, and this is the paperwork that the unions will have to file with them, but, the NMB does not have the jurisdiction to conduct, run or control the election of 2 unions merging, combining, or creating an alliance.
For you guys asking who cares who conducts this election? Well it does matter. If it is conducted by the union they can put anything they want as options on the ballot, which means they could leave off the options of "write-in and speak-in" which if conducted by the NMB they would list such options. By the union conducting it they can leave out yet another option for AMFA or other unions from being brought in. 700 has even back peddled on this very issue in the very beginning, as all of you can see in the very first postings in this thread. It took 2 weeks of prying to get him to admit that there will be the speak-in option on the ballot when he was claiming "other" for a long time. Being deceptive so nobody would catch on and fight them (IAM/TWU) about this alliance. They really don't want the membership to know all their options for this alliance vote due to they want to force the alliance vote to go thru and pass.
Bottom line to your post; Of course they will have to file for the election, but NMB will not conduct it.