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In Federal Lawsuit, Former Southwest Attendant Claims She Was Canned over Anti-Abortion Beliefs
In accordance with the corporate and the Transportation Staff Union of America (TWU) Native 556, Carter acquired the boot after she despatched threatening Fb messages and emails to the TWU president, who had attended a girls’s rights march in 2017.
However Carter now claims in a federal lawsuit that she’d been let go in violation of her First Modification rights and as retaliation for her non secular beliefs, particularly her opposition to abortion. The trial began in Dallas on Tuesday.
In accordance with a 2019 case opinion, she was let go due to violations of firm insurance policies “associated to social media, harassment, and bullying.
Union President Audrey Stone went to the 2017 Girls’s March on D.C. Carter, who opposes each abortion and unions, then reportedly began sending Fb messages to Stone.
In accordance with the 2019 opinion, Carter despatched Stone a video of an aborted fetus with a message that learn: “That is what you supported throughout your Paid Depart with others on the Girls’s MARCH in DC….You really are Despicable in so some ways.”
Carter then despatched one other video of a fetus and message about an hour later, then one more message with an article claiming a terrorist had performed a task within the march. Later that day, she despatched one more message with an article on Deliberate Parenthood and abortion.
Carter despatched a number of messages to Stone, calling her a sheep in wolves clothes, saying she was uneducated and threatening a recall. “YOU all DISGUST ME!!!!!,” Carter wrote in a single e mail to Stone. “OH and by the WAY I and so many different of our [flight attendants] VOTED FOR TRUMP….so shove that in your Propaganda MACHINE!”
Stone reported the messages and emails to Southwest, who later let Carter go from her place.
Texas is among the 27 states which have Proper to Work legal guidelines, that means that staff can’t be coerced into union membership or paying union charges. Nonetheless, in an effort to not disrupt journey and commerce, airline and railway staff fall underneath the Railway Labor Act (RLA), which has its personal bargaining and dispute decision procedures for staff.
Carter’s case is receiving help from the Nationwide Proper-To-Work Authorized Protection Basis, which is offering her with free authorized council. The protection’s attorneys did not reply to the Observer‘s request for remark.
However in a press launch, Carter and her protection mentioned that whereas the RLA permits union officers to have a employee fired for refusing to pay union dues or charges, it does defend the rights of staff to criticize the union and its management and advocate for altering union management.
They are saying Carter was fired for her non secular beliefs in addition to for criticizing union management, which might be protected underneath the RLA.
Each the airline and the union have tried unsuccessfully to get the case dismissed. On Could 5, U.S. District Decide Brantley Starr ordered that the case would transfer ahead with a trial in Dallas.
The Observer reached out to Southwest Airways for remark, however spokesperson Chris Perry solely replied, “We don’t have something so as to add from our finish proper now.”
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Agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division (SLED) are searching for an escaped inmate last seen at a Walmart in Greenville County, according to agency spokesperson Renée Wunderlich.
Billy Reed Fletcher, 43, is said to have escaped from the Carter County Detention Center in Elizabethton, Tennessee, on Thursday, June 20, 2024. Come Monday, June 24, 2024, Fletcher was recorded leaving Walmart Supercenter #641 on White Horse Road in Greenville County, S.C.
“On June 20, 2024, Billy Fletcher … walked off from his work detail at the Carter County Jail,” wrote the Carter County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) on Facebook. “Billy Fletcher was being housed for a Violation of Probation. There is an active warrant for Billy Fletcher for Escape.”
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? #BREAKING: Agents of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division are searching for an inmate who escaped a detention center in Elizabethton, Tennessee on June 20, 2024.
According to SLED, Billy Reed Fletcher, 43, is believed to be in the Palmetto State as he was last seen… pic.twitter.com/zLXoU7DZ33
— Andrew Fancher (@RealAndyFancher) June 30, 2024
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Authorities describe Fletcher as 6-foot-2 and approximately 230 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. They encourage anyone with information to contact SLED by calling 803-737-9000 or emailing tips@sled.sc.gov.
They can also submit an anonymous tip to Crime Stoppers of Greenville by calling 864-23-CRIME (or 864-232-7463), going online at 23crime.com, or using the P3 Tips Mobile app. An anonymous tip through Crime Stoppers can be worth up to $1,000.
This story may be updated.
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Hundreds of Middle Tennesseans gathered near in East Nashville Saturday to paint the city’s first rainbow crosswalks as a celebration of LGBTQ pride.
The event, which was sponsored by Metro Councilman Clay Capp, drew scores of elected officials, community members and a couple of protesters.
The crosswalk intersection at 14 and Woodland Streets is in front of the Lipstick Lounge, which opened in 2003 is one of only 20 lesbian bars in the U.S.
Nashville elected officials begin painting a rainbow crosswalk outside the Lipstick Lounge in East Nashville.
(Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
A street preacher with his Bible admonished participants painting the rainbow crosswalk. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Metro Nashville Councilmember-at-Large Olivia Hill gives the peace sign to everyone before painting. (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
Heather Sapphire, Kennedy Ann Scott and others start painting the crosswalk. (Photo:John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)
BRYAN, Texas (KBTX) – Texas A&M baseball is set to hire Washington head coach Jason Kelly as its next pitching coach, as first reported by The Eagle.
Kelly’s hire comes hours after former pitching coach Michael Earley signed to become the Aggies’ head coach.
Other reports are out that A&M is targeting Texas pitching coach Caleb Longley to join the staff.
Kelly spent the past two years as the head coach for the Huskies after seven seasons as the Huskies’ pitching coach.
In Kelly’s first season at the helm of the UW program, Washington had a 17-12 league record was good for third in the standings. The Huskies garnered a 35-20 overall record, earning the 12th NCAA Regional bid in program-history. The 35 wins were the second most by a first-year head coach for the Huskies.
Six players from Kelly’s inaugural UW squad were selected in the 2023 MLB Draft, the second time Washington has had at least five players drafted since 2014. Kiefer Lord, taken 86th overall by the Baltimore Orioles, became the highest-drafted Husky since 2015. Case Matter (Texas Rangers), Stu Flesland III (Colorado Rockies), Johnny Tincher (Cleveland Guardians), Will Simpson (Oakland Athletics) and Coby Morales (New York Yankees) also heard their names called.
In 2024, Washington had a 19-31-1 record and missed the postseason.
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