During the relatively brief period in which Frank Hester served in a supervisory role for United Airlines, he participated in disciplinary matters involving fellow Flight Attendants, including their termination process. What should makes this situation particularly troubling to many Flight Attendants is that FA Hester has since transitioned back into the role of a regular Flight Attendant within the bargaining unit. As a result, he now works alongside the very employee group whose contractual protections and due-process rights he previously helped administer against while acting in management capacity while terminating their employment.

This creates an appearance of hypocrisy that many flight attendants may find difficult to ignore. While serving as a supervisor, FA Hester participated in a management structure that, failed to uphold the procedural fairness and contractual safeguards guaranteed under the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Yet after returning to the rank-and-file workforce as a flight attendant, FA Hester now benefits from and expects the solidarity, representation, and protections afforded to Union members under that same Agreement.

The concern is not merely personal disagreement. Rather, it reflects a broader frustration regarding accountability and consistency. Flight Attendants reasonably expect that individuals entrusted with supervisory authority—particularly authority involving career-ending disciplinary decisions—will exercise that authority carefully, fairly, and consistent with contractual due-process protections. When serious procedural irregularities occur and those involved later return to the bargaining unit as though nothing occurred, it can understandably create resentment and distrust among fellow employees.

This criticism is directed not at the concept of management itself, but at the manner in which authority was exercised by FA Hester. FA Hester participated in a process that disregarded fundamental fairness protections owed to a long-tenured employee. The fact that FA Hester now seeks to stand again as “one of their own” among the very workforce impacted by his decisions highlights the deeply conflicting and hypocritical nature of the situation from the perspective of many Flight Attendants familiar with the case.

Documented below is FA Frank Hester’s own sworn testimony regarding the number of fellow Flight Attendants whose terminations he directly participated in while serving in a supervisory capacity at United Airlines. The testimony further reflects FA Hester’s position that, after returning from management back into the bargaining unit as a Flight Attendant, his fellow employees should simply accept and move beyond his prior role in disciplinary actions affecting their co-workers and peers.

This testimony is relevant because it highlights the unusual and conflicting dynamic created when an individual who exercised management authority over career-ending disciplinary matters later returns to work alongside the same unionized workforce impacted by those decisions. The testimony raises broader questions regarding accountability, solidarity within the bargaining unit, and the expectations placed upon fellow Flight Attendants to overlook or disregard the consequences of prior supervisory actions taken against their colleagues.