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demmiblue

(36,751 posts)
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 01:28 PM Sep 2020

United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews

United Airlines Holdings Inc. packs its charter flights for sports teams with young, blond crews and bars older flight attendants from working the plum routes, according to a new lawsuit.

In so doing, the airline bases the value of workers “entirely on their racial and physical attributes, and stereotypical notions of sexual allure,” according to two veteran flight attendants who sued Friday in California.

The attendants -- a Black woman who has worked for the airline for 28 years and a Jewish woman with 34 years of tenure -- say that they both tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get assigned to work the charter flights.

United Airlines has contracts to provide air travel for some three dozen teams in the National Football League, Major League Baseball and National Collegiate Athletic Association, according to the lawsuit. Attendants who work those flights earn more and are provided with premium accommodations. They also sometimes get tickets to games, including playoff and Super Bowl tickets, and “extremely valuable” infield passes, according to the lawsuit.

Sharon Tesler and Kim Guillory said they were told by supervisors that they were unable to get work on the charters because they weren’t on “preferred” lists that were based on team preferences, according to the complaint.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-12/united-sued-for-packing-nfl-charters-with-young-blond-crews


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United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews (Original Post) demmiblue Sep 2020 OP
Sounds like a Sherman A1 Sep 2020 #1
Should be Enterstageleft Sep 2020 #2
I hate United Airlines sdfernando Sep 2020 #3

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
1. Sounds like a
Sun Sep 13, 2020, 01:40 PM
Sep 2020

Wink, Wink, Nod, Nod deal between the NFL Teams and The Airline and it is a truly BS one.

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