May 23, 2024
A Washington federal judge tossed a suit from two Christian flight attendants who said they were illegally fired by Alaska Airlines and abandoned by their labor union for opposing the airline's support for LGBTQ+ rights, ruling there's no proof unlawful bias cost them their jobs.
February 28, 2024
Alaska Airlines is urging a Washington federal judge to toss two Christian flight attendants' claims that they were pushed out of work due to bias against their religious beliefs by the company and their union, saying they were actually fired because they expressed their beliefs in a discriminatory manner.
February 14, 2024
Two Alaska Airlines flight attendants alleging they were terminated from their positions for their religious convictions after making online posts about gender identity should have to prove their discrimination claims at trial, their union said, arguing that the attendants' real motive for posting publicly was political.
January 17, 2024
A flight attendants' union stopped fighting two Alaska Airlines workers' firings because of their grievances' slim likelihood of success at arbitration, not because the union was biased against the workers' Christianity, the union argued in a summary judgment brief in Washington federal court.
May 02, 2023
Two former Alaska Airlines flight attendants who said they were fired for their religious beliefs cannot upend an order blocking them from asking deposition questions about their ex-managers' views of people who oppose same-sex marriage, a Washington federal judge ruled Tuesday, finding the line of questioning is irrelevant and inflammatory.
March 15, 2023
Two former Alaska Airlines flight attendants asked a Washington federal judge to allow deposition questions about their ex-managers' views of same-sex marriage opponents as their religious bias lawsuit proceeds, calling the questions relevant to determining whether they were fired for religion-based opposition to the Equality Act.
November 28, 2022
A Washington federal judge tossed state bias claims brought by two ex-Alaska Airlines workers against the Association of Flight Attendants alleging the union did not fight hard enough for their rehiring after they were fired for posting anti-gay comments on a company site, ruling federal law overrides their state claims.
August 11, 2022
The Association of Flight Attendants is looking to duck allegations that it failed to fight hard enough to get two Alaska Airlines ex-workers rehired after they lost their jobs for posting comments that the company deemed anti-gay, urging a Washington federal judge to toss part of the suit.