Southwest Flight Attendant Won $5 Million When It Fired Her for Being Pro-Life, Now She Wants Her Job Back
September 3, 2022 | Coloraado
A Southwest Airlines flight attendant who was fired for expressing her pro-life views is fighting in court to get her job back.
The Epoch Times recently interviewed flight attendant Charlene Carter, 56, of Aurora, Colorado, about the legal battle, her faith and the reasons why she became pro-life.
Carter worked as a flight attendant at Southwest for nearly 21 years. In 2017, she was fired after sharing her pro-life beliefs on Facebook and speaking out against the Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU) Local 556 spending members’ dues on pro-abortion activities.
In July, a federal district court in Dallas, Texas awarded her $5.1 million, CBN News reports. Now, her lawyers are asking Southwest to allow Carter to return to work.
“I want to go back, hold my head up high and say, ‘You can’t do this anymore,’” she told the Epoch Times. “I’d like to see us bring back what the original Southwest was, or at least some form of that.”
Carter said being a flight attendant with Southwest was her “dream job,” and, until union disputes arose during the last few years of her employment, she thoroughly enjoyed what she did…. (Excerpt from LIFENEWS.COM)
