Southwest Worker Religious Bias Win Flawed, Union Says on Appeal

Transport Workers Union of America Local 556 told a federal appeals court it should overturn a jury’s finding that a Southwest Airlines Co. flight attendant was subject to religious bias after clashing with the union’s president over the group’s presence at the 2017 Women’s March on Washington.

The trial of Charlene Carter’s claims against it and Southwest went off the rails when a lower court wrongly instructed the jury that the Railway Labor Act protects obscene and abusive activity, Local 556 said in its opening Fifth Circuit brief filed Monday. Carter had sent the union president offensive emails, including a ...