Union officials representing Southwest Airlines employees and activists ridiculed and even targeted for social media “assassinations” members who disagreed with the labor group’s left-wing political activism, according to damning messages reviewed by The Daily Wire.
The messages, contained in court documents, were exchanged between Southwest Airlines and Transportation Workers Union of America (TWU) Local 556 union officials and activists. They were revealed during a lawsuit brought by pro-life flight attendant Charlene Carter, a 20-year veteran fired by Southwest Airlines for her religious beliefs. A jury last month awarded Carter a whopping $5.1 million — $4.15 million from Southwest and $950,000 from the TWU Local 556 union.
When Carter complained in 2013 about deductions from her paycheck going to the union’s leftist political action committee, union treasurer John Parrot forwarded Carter’s email to other officials with a message making fun of her.
“Ha! She has been supporting the thing she despises this entire time…,” he wrote.
Todd Gage, a union vice president, joined in the mockery.
“I wish I could give her a list of all the campaigns she has donated to in the last 17 years! Her head would explode,” he wrote.
