Fired Pro-Life Southwest Worker Gets Job Back, $810,000 (1)

A Southwest Airlines Co. flight attendant must be reinstated in her job and can keep $810,000 of the $5.1 million a jury awarded her for her unlawful firing after she clashed with a co-worker over their union’s attendance at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington.

The union, Transport Workers Union of America Local 556, is on the hook for $300,000 of Charlene Carter’s reduced compensatory and damages win under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, and Southwest is separately liable for $300,000, the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas said Monday. The Title VII award ...