Court of Law finds SWA in Civil Contempt
08-08-2023, 03:08 AM
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Court of Law finds SWA in Civil Contempt
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT GRANTS (SWA Flight attendant CHARLENE) CARTER'S MOTION AND HOLDS SOUTHWEST AIRLINES IN CIVIL CONTEMPT.
The outstanding and very eloquent Judge Brantley Starr issues epic smackdown (AGAIN) against Southwest Airlines Attorneys, and requires them to attend Religious Liberty Training by August 28, 2023.
Southwest Airlines in-house attorneys (Kerry Forbes, Kevin Minchey, and Chris Mayberry) are directed by the court to attend Religious Liberty training.
These are the same SWA Attorneys working with CK and being advised by Ford-Harrison https://www.fordharrison.com/?fbclid...cerBnCwCAH8pOQ
The outstanding and very eloquent Judge Brantley Starr issues epic smackdown (AGAIN) against Southwest Airlines Attorneys, and requires them to attend Religious Liberty Training by August 28, 2023.
Southwest Airlines in-house attorneys (Kerry Forbes, Kevin Minchey, and Chris Mayberry) are directed by the court to attend Religious Liberty training.
These are the same SWA Attorneys working with CK and being advised by Ford-Harrison https://www.fordharrison.com/?fbclid...cerBnCwCAH8pOQ
08-08-2023, 05:11 AM
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Ka BOOM! Southwest’s Lawyers Must Take ADF Religion Classes, Judge Says
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga...sses-judge-say
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/litiga...sses-judge-say
08-08-2023, 05:21 AM
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Her legal defense is being paid for by the National Right to Work foundation. Just for full disclosure at the forces at work here. That group and FordHarrison are pretty aligned in their goals.
TWU is a hot mess and has zero leadership or organizational structure. That union president in question was a well known bad actor. They had no business being at a politically motivated event like the women's march in any official fashion and using member dollars to promote it. That created a problem. SWA chose to address it like they often do: they used the social media policy as a cudgel to fire an employee without thinking of the second order ramifications of that. Now this case is costing the company money.
Yes, this is being wrapped in the cloak of religious freedom and I think the case has merit, but this case is mainly about union busting with the end goal being national right to work legislation. TWU just helped them further that goal.
TWU is a hot mess and has zero leadership or organizational structure. That union president in question was a well known bad actor. They had no business being at a politically motivated event like the women's march in any official fashion and using member dollars to promote it. That created a problem. SWA chose to address it like they often do: they used the social media policy as a cudgel to fire an employee without thinking of the second order ramifications of that. Now this case is costing the company money.
Yes, this is being wrapped in the cloak of religious freedom and I think the case has merit, but this case is mainly about union busting with the end goal being national right to work legislation. TWU just helped them further that goal.
08-08-2023, 07:34 AM
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Southwest the $LUV airline is finding out what happens when you FU C.K around
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge...150913514.html
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge...150913514.html
08-08-2023, 07:40 AM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...3db_story.html
There are other lawsuits pending that are related to SWA employees, constitutional rights, and/or SM policies that could be affected as a result of this decision.
There are other lawsuits pending that are related to SWA employees, constitutional rights, and/or SM policies that could be affected as a result of this decision.
08-08-2023, 04:35 PM
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It's not a coincidence that SWAPA has well over 100 open grievances and SWA's answer to every single one is a shrug, used in court the "legal argument" that contract violations are ok because "overall we're in the ballpark", has been using decades old handwritten notes to justify violating black-and-white contract language, proposed a new payscale that is only comparable to other airline payscales if a newly inflated multiplier is used as a conversion factor, and is has for the last 3 years consistently insisted that they like the pilot contract exactly the way it is and everything is going ok, even in the face of meltdown after meltdown.
SWA is the laughingstock of the industry and their cheerfully persistent insistence on denying reality is deeply baked into the leadership culture at SWA. Every quote coming out of leadership's mouth is arrogant, dismissive, or disrespectful. They are in the ballpark for contract compliance so it's ok to violate it sometimes. Pervasive pay errors are ok because when we catch them cheating us out of pay, they always pay up (after initially denying it and fighting it of course). They have all the data on flying operations we do and they're doing an amazingly good job so they don't need our (pilot) input. The broken safety culture that encourages dangerously stretched "legal but stupid" schedule changes and reroutes while relying on the weakest link (the fatigued pilot) to be the ONLY safety net is absolutely how safety is supposed to work at SWA, and anyone who thinks it's a dangerously reckless way to run an airline obviously doesn't know anything about "safety".
The list of quotes goes on and on, all of them arrogant and dismissive. That's the direction SWA is headed and the continuing legal clown show SWA is putting on in front of the nation is getting more and more attention.
SWA is the laughingstock of the industry and their cheerfully persistent insistence on denying reality is deeply baked into the leadership culture at SWA. Every quote coming out of leadership's mouth is arrogant, dismissive, or disrespectful. They are in the ballpark for contract compliance so it's ok to violate it sometimes. Pervasive pay errors are ok because when we catch them cheating us out of pay, they always pay up (after initially denying it and fighting it of course). They have all the data on flying operations we do and they're doing an amazingly good job so they don't need our (pilot) input. The broken safety culture that encourages dangerously stretched "legal but stupid" schedule changes and reroutes while relying on the weakest link (the fatigued pilot) to be the ONLY safety net is absolutely how safety is supposed to work at SWA, and anyone who thinks it's a dangerously reckless way to run an airline obviously doesn't know anything about "safety".
The list of quotes goes on and on, all of them arrogant and dismissive. That's the direction SWA is headed and the continuing legal clown show SWA is putting on in front of the nation is getting more and more attention.
08-08-2023, 05:34 PM
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It's not a coincidence that SWAPA has well over 100 open grievances and SWA's answer to every single one is a shrug, used in court the "legal argument" that contract violations are ok because "overall we're in the ballpark", has been using decades old handwritten notes to justify violating black-and-white contract language, proposed a new payscale that is only comparable to other airline payscales if a newly inflated multiplier is used as a conversion factor, and is has for the last 3 years consistently insisted that they like the pilot contract exactly the way it is and everything is going ok, even in the face of meltdown after meltdown.
SWA is the laughingstock of the industry and their cheerfully persistent insistence on denying reality is deeply baked into the leadership culture at SWA. Every quote coming out of leadership's mouth is arrogant, dismissive, or disrespectful. They are in the ballpark for contract compliance so it's ok to violate it sometimes. Pervasive pay errors are ok because when we catch them cheating us out of pay, they always pay up (after initially denying it and fighting it of course). They have all the data on flying operations we do and they're doing an amazingly good job so they don't need our (pilot) input. The broken safety culture that encourages dangerously stretched "legal but stupid" schedule changes and reroutes while relying on the weakest link (the fatigued pilot) to be the ONLY safety net is absolutely how safety is supposed to work at SWA, and anyone who thinks it's a dangerously reckless way to run an airline obviously doesn't know anything about "safety".
The list of quotes goes on and on, all of them arrogant and dismissive. That's the direction SWA is headed and the continuing legal clown show SWA is putting on in front of the nation is getting more and more attention.
SWA is the laughingstock of the industry and their cheerfully persistent insistence on denying reality is deeply baked into the leadership culture at SWA. Every quote coming out of leadership's mouth is arrogant, dismissive, or disrespectful. They are in the ballpark for contract compliance so it's ok to violate it sometimes. Pervasive pay errors are ok because when we catch them cheating us out of pay, they always pay up (after initially denying it and fighting it of course). They have all the data on flying operations we do and they're doing an amazingly good job so they don't need our (pilot) input. The broken safety culture that encourages dangerously stretched "legal but stupid" schedule changes and reroutes while relying on the weakest link (the fatigued pilot) to be the ONLY safety net is absolutely how safety is supposed to work at SWA, and anyone who thinks it's a dangerously reckless way to run an airline obviously doesn't know anything about "safety".
The list of quotes goes on and on, all of them arrogant and dismissive. That's the direction SWA is headed and the continuing legal clown show SWA is putting on in front of the nation is getting more and more attention.
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