A pro-life flight attendant’s five-year quest to get her job back may not be over yet.
On Dec. 5, a Texas federal judge ordered Southwest Airlines to reinstate Charlene Carter.
Judge Brantley Starr also chastised the company’s “intolerance of speech,” as he ordered the company and Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 to pay Carter a combined total of more than $835,000 in back pay, damages, and other compensation.
In July, a jury voted to award Carter $5 million, but rules and laws cap the amounts that can be issued in such cases, Starr said. He noted that 2,092 days had passed since Carter was fired on March 14, 2017, for criticizing her union and expressing religious-based pro-life views via social media….