ED search at Writers' Union might be an opportunity to explore merger with PWAC

Unsolicited advice is worth what you pay for it, I suppose, but one has to wonder whether the current search for an executive director to fill a vacancy at The Writers' Union of Canada (TWUC) isn't a golden opportunity to consider a merger with the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC).

TWUC represents about 2,000 professionally published book authors and supports them and advocates for their best and common interests. PWAC does essentially the same for its 600+ members, many of whom are freelance magazine, newspaper and corporate writers. Some people are members of both. Both organizations are located in Toronto. Both organizations lobby the federal government and provincial governments. Both collaborate with other publishing industry groups and other not-for-profit organizations. Both are concerned with freedom of expression and compensation issues.  Members of both might even concede, sotto voce, that they'd like to be more effective than they are.

It would seem a good fit and an opportunity to have more clout, more efficiently (now they have two executive directors, two boards, two offices etc.), wouldn't it? Just asking. Talk among yourselves.