hoover

hey man I'm getting a new boat I have to pay for so I'm working over my summer vacation so I can buy the boat and not use it this yr but itll look really great next to my other toys I bought while working over vacation the previous yrs that I still havent used but I can brag about them while flying over my vacation next summer. C'mon man

mulcher

Exactly! This is the SWA pilots way of life. Then that same idiot will vote yes on a lagging contract wondering why he’s working so much to pay for that crap.

Excargodog

loveislost7M8

Last Monday, Texas U.S. District Judge Brantley Starr entered an order sanctioning Southwest for violating a previous order. The case revolved around the illegal firing of a Southwest flight attendant, who was laid off because she posted a pro-life tweet on her social media. A jury found Southwest and the flight attendant union were guilty of violating the attendant’s free speech rights and religious liberties, and awarded her $5.1 million dollars, which was later reduced by the judge to $800,000.
As part of the original decision, the judge ordered Southwest to notify all its employees, to make sure they know about their religious freedom rights under Title VII. But Southwest and its lawyers tried to circumvent that order, and instead of following the judge’s instructions, sent a watered-down note to employees implying Southwest had been found innocent, and failed to mention their religious liberty rights or Title VII.
So the judge sanctioned Southwest and included two interesting provisions. First, the judge ordered Southwest’s three lawyers to attend “religious freedom education” training provided by the Alliance Defending Freedom. The Hill described the ADF as “a Christian conservative legal advocacy group,” a sign of how upset that part of the order has made liberals.
Liberals are the ones who force conservatives to go to reeducation training, not the other way around, silly.
The judge also wrote out an exact notice that he ordered Southwest to send to its employees, to make sure they get the correct instructions this time.
So of course, instead of complying with a little training and a one-paragraph notice that could be emailed to employees at zero cost, Southwest is spending tens of thousands of dollars on appealing the sanctions order and the underlying judgment. “We plan to appeal the recent court order and are in the process of appealing the underlying judgment to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals,” Southwest said in a statement Wednesday.
Good luck. The Fifth Circuit was reliably pro-freedom during the pandemic, issuing some of the best anti-mandate orders in the country. District judges have a lot of freedom to sanction parties that violate orders. It could have been much worse, including jail time for contempt. A little training and a note to employees seems like the minimum a judge could do when a company refuses to follow its orders.
As to Southwest’s appeal of the underlying judgment, it is well known that appeals of jury verdicts are the most difficult types of appeals to win. Appellate judges hate disturbing all the work that a jury invested in listening to witnesses and reviewing evidence and so forth. So I don’t predict the appeal will be well taken. I predict that the flight attendant’s lawyers will soon be getting even more of their fees paid by Southwest. But we’ll see!

calmemployment

Southwest Sanctioned Again for Religious Discrimination

https://dallasexpress.com/city/south...JuhA1m44HUuaP7

ZapBrannigan

I suspect they aren’t appealing the required training so much as they are the organization the judge chose to provide the training.

dmcaso

Easiest way to tell if a guy is cool or not is to check their sick bank in CWA. If you’re sitting on 800 hrs, your life priorities are ****.

Grumpyaviator

That guy also does 200tfp/mo and has his board blocked but “isn’t a tournament player”.

flyguy81

My bank is higher than it should be because I’m using it for STD vs paying for it and figured I’d save the “I just don’t wanna go to work” calls for when I upgraded and it was worth 40% more.

Cyio

It’s a gamble. How much are you willing to miss, not experience or put up with vs the off chance you don’t live long enough to use it.

Im a tomorrow is never guaranteed guy so I use it when I need to.