Top Ten Reasons to Recall APFA Vice President Larry Salas

1. Failure to Defend the Contract
Under this administration, no presidential grievances were filed in almost two years. Only after membership demanded it did Julie Hedrick and Larry Salas file a grievance over the sit rig issue. They have filed six presidential grievances in five years in office. This is the lowest amount of presidential grievances filed in years by any administration.

2. The NOD Process is Broken
With no presidential grievances filed, members are forced to rely on the dispute process by filing NODs. But this process is also broken under Salas. Members are often discouraged from filing NODs. Even though the process is supposed to be backed up by a quarterly system board, these never happen under this administration, as cases are dropped or settled without a binding resolution.

3. Failure to Protect Members from Termination
Hundreds of flight attendants have been terminated in the last five years. Salas has taken at most three of those cases to arbitration. He refuses to fight terminations, abandoning members at the moment they need representation the most. Members are often forced to sign last chance agreements because the union won’t defend them. More often than not, Salas ends up agreeing with the company.

4. Failure to Uphold the Duty of Fair Representation
Salas has failed to meet the union’s duty of fair representation. Cases are ignored, abandoned, or left to drag on for years. Members are left on their own instead of receiving the representation they are guaranteed. This leaves the union open to lawsuits.

5. Largest Budget, Smallest Results
The SBA department has the biggest budget in APFA. While Salas has plenty of money for meal expenses for his team, he refuses to spend money on arbitrations.

6. Dialed It In for the Staffing Arbitration
The staffing arbitration was one of the most important fights for flight attendants. Salas dialed it in, refusing to even do a time study which previous administrations had done in a similar case. Of course, due to the failure to prepare, APFA lost the case and our workgroup will pay the price.

7. Failure to Address Reserve Out-of-Base Terminations
Dozens of flight attendants with clean records have been terminated under the “reserve out-of-base” policy. Salas did not put up a fight or even arbitrate one of the cases. He simply agrees with the company that they can jump straight to termination.

8. Failure to Protect Union Funds and Financial Transparency
As a National Officer, Larry Salas has an obligation to safeguard APFA resources. Yet he has voted consistently with Julie Hedrick to deny internal charges, refused to collect money owed to APFA, and ignored requests from members to review his meal and expense charges. The APFA constitution and the law require these records be made available, but this administration has closed the books to membership review.

9. Failure to Reform the SBA Department
When running for reelection, Larry Salas promised to reform the grievance and arbitration procedure at APFA. But he has failed to do so and is continuing business as usual.

10. Bad Leadership
As National Vice President, Larry Salas is on the Executive Committee and shares responsibility for running APFA. Yet under this administration, they have conducted business in secret, destroyed the internal charge process, raided the negotiations fund, and hid financial records.