Ex-Southwest Flight Attendant Wins $5.1 Million in Bias Row

Southwest Airlines Co. and Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 must pay $5.1 million in damages to an anti-abortion Christian flight attendant who was fired after she clashed with a union president over its attendance at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington, after a Dallas federal jury found they engaged in discrimination and retaliation.

The jury, sitting in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, found Thursday that Southwest retaliated against Charlene Carter by engaging in activity protected by the Railway Labor Act, unlawfully discriminated against her by firing her and that her termination was motivated ...