Ex-Southwest Worker Gets Trial Over Abortion Dispute With Union

Southwest Airlines Co. must face trial on an anti-abortion Christian flight attendant’s claims based on her firing after she clashed with a union president over the union’s attendance at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, a Dallas federal judge ruled.

Whether the Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 violated Charlene Carter’s rights in the events leading up to her termination is also for a jury to decide, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas said.

Carter’s retaliation claims under the Railway Labor Act, religious bias claims under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and ...