Amanda Prestigiacomo
A flight attendant was awarded $5.1 million by a jury on Thursday, finding that Southwest Airlines canned 20-year veteran Charlene Carter for her sincerely held religious beliefs, namely her pro-life views.
Carter expressed her pro-life
stance online and pushed back against the Transportation Workers Union of
America (TWU) Local 556 union after the group, including president Audrey Stone,
attended the Women’s
March in Washington, D.C., in 2017. The event receives funding
from Planned
Parenthood, the largest abortion mill in the country.
“Today is a victory for
freedom of speech and religious beliefs. Flight attendants should have a voice
and nobody should be able to retaliate against a flight attendant for engaging
in protected speech against her union,” Carter told FOX
Business on Friday. “I am so humbled and thankful for today’s decision and for
everyone who’s supported me these past five years, including the National Right
to Work Foundation.”
The National Right to Work
Foundation President Mark Mix slammed the union following the verdict.
“No American worker should have to fear termination, intimidation, or any other reprisal merely for speaking out against having their own money spent, purportedly in their name, to promote an agenda they find abhorrent,” said Mix, who reportedly served pro-bono legal representation to Carter.
“TWU union officials still
enjoy the enormous government-granted privilege of being able to force airline
workers to financially subsidize their activities as a condition of
employment,” Mix added.
“While we’re proud to stand
with Ms. Carter and are pleased by the verdict, there ultimately should be no
place in American labor law for compelling workers to fund a private
organization that violates their core beliefs,” he added.
A jury rendered the verdict
following an eight-day trial before Dallas Judge Brantley Starr. Bloomberg
Law said Starr ruled on May 5 that it was necessary for Carter to
receive a trial due to religious bias claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil
Rights Act, retaliation claims under the Railway Labor Act, and claims of
breach of the duty of fair representation.
Southwest plans to
appeal the verdict, claiming in a statement on Friday that the
company “has a demonstrated history of supporting our employees’ rights to
express their opinions when done in a respectful manner.”
Carter could collect $4.15
million from Southwest and $950,000 from the union, mostly in punitive damages,
if the verdict stands,” according to
The Washington Post.
Amanda Prestigiacomo, Daily Wire, 17-7-2022
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