While the union is required to represent them in issues related to collective bargaining, association fee payers do not have the privilege of voting in union elections or on referendums. If, as F9Driver says, all but 13 Frontier guys are association fee payers, that means only those 13 can vote on the strike referendum and only those 13 can vote in the upcoming Executive Board elections. That's too bad.

Electing a Frontier guy to the governing board of 357 could go a long way towards ending this little war and allying the pilots against the common enemy. Unfortunately, through their choice to abstain from membership they have lost a considerable voting bloc in the E-Board election. There are those who will say that no F9 guy would have had a chance to be elected anyway, however 600+/- votes could make a difference, particularly since the voter turnout is historically low in the elections.

It probably doesn't matter in any case. From the readings here and elsewhere, Casey Jones is at the switch.