Boeing Must Face Southwest Pilot Wage Claims Over Max Grounding

Boeing Co. must face lost wage claims from 8,000 Southwest Airlines pilots who couldn’t work during a mass shutdown of the 737 MAX airliner, a majority of justices on the Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Boeing had argued the claims are barred under the federal Railway Labor Act because the pilots’ union employment agreement is with Southwest, not Boeing.

But that argument fails because the pilots’ claims don’t “substantially depend upon interpretation of the parties’” agreement, the court said in a 7-2 opinion.

The case is remanded to allow the pilots to prove they were misled into flying the ...