Tag: Transport Workers Union of America

EXCLUSIVE: Fired Pro-Life Flight Attendant is Flying High Again

March 15, 2023
Charlene CarterFeatured TopicsSouthwest AirlinesTransport Workers Union of AmericaUSUS Features
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COLUMBUS, Ohio–To Charlene Carter, it felt surreal.  She was once again soaring amid the clouds, working as a flight attendant for the first time in six years. “I literally was pinching myself on the airplane last night, because I’m like, ‘I am back at doing what I love doing,’” she told The Epoch Times on…

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EXCLUSIVE: Fired Pro-Life Flight Attendant Is Flying High Again Six Years After Sacking

March 15, 2023
Charlene CarterFeatured TopicsSouthwest AirlinesTransport Workers Union of AmericaUSUS Features
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COLUMBUS, Ohio—To Charlene Carter, it felt surreal. She was once again soaring amid the clouds, working as a flight attendant for the first time in six years. “I literally was pinching myself on the airplane last night, because I’m like, ‘I am back at doing what I love doing,’” she told The Epoch Times on…

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Southwest Airlines, Union, Ordered to Pay $5.3 Million to Pro-Life Former Flight Attendant

July 15, 2022
Business & Marketscivil rightsJudiciarylabor unionsPolicies & Impactsreligious discriminationSouthwest AirlinesTexasTransport Workers Union of AmericaUS
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A federal jury in Texas ordered Southwest Airlines and its union on July 14 to pay a former flight attendant who opposes abortion more than $5.3 million after she was fired for sending pro-life messages to her union’s president. The jury determined that the airline and Transport Workers Union of America (TWU) Local 556 violated…

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Southwest Flight Attendant Fired Over Pro-Life Views to Have Her Day in Federal Court, Judge Rules

May 15, 2022
constitutional rightsemployment discriminationFeatured TopicsJudiciaryMark Mixnational right to work foundationSouthwest AirlinesTransport Workers Union of AmericaUS
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A federal judge has ordered that fired Southwest Airlines flight attendant Charlene Carter’s religious discrimination lawsuit against the company and its union would proceed to trial, after the judge denied a request to dismiss the lawsuit. The case, known as Carter v. Transport Workers Union of America Local 556, civil action 3:17-cv-2278, is pending in…

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