In a word...
No.
Briefly, to legally participate in PIA you must be a member of the union conducting the PIA AND you must have been a member of that union working for the company in question when the ballot was done (i.e. eligible to vote on the PIA in question).
Both the AFAP and AIPA conducted PIA ballots during the recent Eastern EBA negotiations.
In the above case, if AIPA had conducted PIA, only the AIPA members who were eligible to participate in the ballot could legally take PIA. Any AIPA members joining after the ballot would not be eligible, neither would any Eastern AFAP members nor would any AIPA members who were flying for Sunstate.
DIVOSH!
(P.S. Neither the AFAP or AIPA conducted PIA)
Last edited by Di_Vosh; 12th May 2011 at 09:08.