sentences:  While the AFT executive council approved the merger, delegates to the NEA Representative Assembly failed to approve merger by the necessary two-thirds majority.This appeared to imperil the MEA-MFT merger, but Feaver and McGarvey declared their intention to merge regardless of what the parent bodies' said.The NEA and AFT quickly established national guidelines for state and local level mergers, with the MEA-MFT merger providing the first test case.