flight attendant awarded $5M after firing over abortion stance

• Worker joins a union.
• Worker disagrees with union and quits.
• Worker still has to pay union dues.
• Worker voices her personal opinion.
• Union gets butthurt.
  
• Union hauls worker in to harass her over said opinion.
• Union has employee terminated over her opinion.
• Worker sues union, win $5 MILLION dollars, FU union.

So much is wrong with this from the forcing of a non-union employee to pay the union for 'representing' someone who is clearly saying these people don't represent me. Then to haul her in and interrogate her over perfectly civil and legal social media posts like she was some criminal. Then to fire her because she committed the ultimate sin of disagreeing with the progressive mind virus - which when you think about it how in balls does a union have the power to tell a company who to fire?

Well I think the judgement should have been so much more but a 'W' is a ****ing 'W' and any time some prog union gets slapped down it chips away at the cancerous hold they have on America. Score one for free speech.

 

It is (obviously) already being Appealed...
Get back to me when she collects even one penny...

 

Of course the union scum will appeal this decision. Being told they're wrong and having to give up money? In a lot of unions people would end up dead over something like this.

But do you think the decision should be overturned? You'd be ok with the precedent that would establish?

 

You couldn't fully quit any union and have them not keep deducting dues until Janus vs. AFSCME in 2018. Well, that was at least for public schools, I'm guessing it was the same thing for the flight attendant union as well.

 

I also don’t agree with people being required to be in a union — it should be 100% voluntary. But I don’t see how anything in this case is worth $5 million dollars.

The average wage for a flight attendant in Texas is $78,847. It would take almost 64 years for her to earn this award.

This will be moved out of Texas and a more reasonable award issued. It’s crazy you can support such a judgment — our judicial system is so ****ed.

 

One of the top 10 decisions of our era no doubt. Think of the billions or even tens of billions of dollars unions have bilked from employees over the years - the woman from the story included as her fight goes all the way back to 1996.

 

Not only do I support it but I think it should be more. I'm fed up with this cancerous Marxist cancel culture thinking it can shut down literally anything and everything that goes against it. The power to suppress and/or punish speech is very limited with select special use cases, but these progs think its their own personal sword to wield as they see fit. And this case had a particular enhancement as clearly a union boss was strong-arming a company to fire someone who was critical of said union boss. Five million isn't even close to a proper judgement - it should be 10 times that and it should be concurrent judgements against the union and the airline.

 

her chances of getting all evangelicals in her appeals is unlikely

 

~ Unions, big Corporations pushing around the little guy sometimes ends in big judgements. Remember the big box retailer that went authoritarian with store "security " — detaining shoppers unlawfully and using unnecessary force to do so.
This is somewhat similar and just as sickening. Typical of goofy Walmart.

https://www.businessinsider.com/wal...ion-woman-wrongly-accused-shoplifting-2021-11

 

Agreed. But if it was, very few would join and the reps wouldnt make any money. Folks would just collect their prevailing wage and keep the dues.

 

So who got her fired? The union or was it her employer?

 

As far as I know unions cannot fire someone from a business, only the business can. However if the union pressures a company into doing something then they are both culpable. And if I'm reading things right that is what happened.

 

If they proved they union tried to get fired then that’s outrageous and she deserves every penny. I’m curious how they proved that.

 

We’ve had members piss on the floor in the union hall, we’d still never try to get them fired. That’s a breach of the entire union/member relationship

 

Probably through discovery process...emails and the like.

 

I’m glad she won. She should have won more in punitive damages that she was awarded. I don’t see the Union winning this on appeal. The appeals court that includes Texas is one of the most conservative and the Supreme Court is more so since Janus was decided. With Texas being a right to work state I’m shocked that the union could continue collecting dues from her after she quit the union.

 

~ Sounds great. Maybe they will graduate and then can poop and pee ! Really make a mess ...

 

You think she should be awarded 100 million for being fired?

That is laughable

 

I would not be surprised if the entire monetary amount was overturned on appeal.

 

I generally support union membership as a requirement of employment. If you don’t want to pay union dues, find a different job. I oppose any laws that limit freedom of association.

I never understood unions though. I get paid to do my job. It makes zero sense to pay to have one. Especially when most of it is just so union leadership can live the good life.

 

~ Unions served a purpose decades ago. Today they are mostly politicized bureaucracies and unnecessary.

 

Unions do not represent worker interests. This is why no they have no place naturally and have to bully to justify their existence. They are entirely political.

 

$50M from the thug commie union that targeted her for harassment because she had a personal opinion, and $50M from the airline that let the commie union dictate who should be fired. Yea, I'd say that's a fair minimum. We've seen prog cities hand out almost as much to the families of career criminal didntdoanythingsuchagoodboys who were lawfully put down after attempting to murder people. Seems reasonable.

 

So you are equating someone being fired from a medium wage job with someone being murdered by the police?

That’s… interesting.

We will have to agree to disagree

 

No. Firstly the reference was to family members (of the people who were lawfully put down ie not murdered), to wit I'll add lawyers and leftist organizations like BLM since they get part of the pay off as well. And secondly I'm trying to make a comparison in context of what people find appropriate or obscene, not an equivalency.