Former flight attendant Charlene Carter objected to union’s left-wing spending, support for Women’s March.
WFB: A federal court on Monday ordered Southwest Airlines to provide back pay to a former flight attendant who was fired after speaking out against her union’s political activism.
The court ruled that Charlene Carter, whom the airline fired in 2017 after she posted pro-life messages and supported a recall effort of her union’s president, also receive maximum punitive damages and reinstatement.
“Bags fly free with Southwest,” U.S. district judge Brantley Starr wrote in the ruling. “But free speech didn’t fly at all with Southwest in this case.”
Carter had objected to political activity by her union, Transportation Workers Union Local 556, including its use of funds to send members to the left-wing Women’s March in Washington, D.C.
“Southwest and TWU union officials made Ms. Carter pay an unconscionable price just because she decided to speak out against the political activities of union officials in accordance with her deeply held religious beliefs,” said National Right to Work Foundation president Mark Mix, whose organization defended Carter in court.
The union and airline attempted to throw the suit out in July 2019. A federal judge rejected the move, saying Carter “sufficiently pleaded enough facts to state a plausible claim for retaliation.” more here
Free speech and freedom of religion. What concepts.
If companies are allowed to fire people because “they are private companies” then we might as well declare the Constitution null and void as demonstrated by FBI and Twitter.
It is about time that unions be reigned in. Their job is to look out for employees – not engage in outside political activism unrelated to their members.
It seems that some groups got enough rope to hang themselves. May the trend continue.
Unions are about softly stealing money. Or not so softly.
There’s a reason that Union pensions are bankrupt – the Union bosses extorted the money from Union members and channeled it to themselves and their political masters.
$Billions upon $Billions.
Union members pay into Pension Plans that they KNOW are being plundered. Why they put up with the shit is a mystery – but I guess the promise of a taxpayer bailout mollifies them – even though they are taxpayers! They get to pay twice for their pensions! Fucking Dumbasses.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
If you are in a union please check out Beck Vs. CWA. I used it every year for 22 years. It keeps your dues from going to politicians and you get money back.