Former employee sues SW Airlines for discrimination/wrongful termination, claims they don't like bleks

[Wally Fairway 5500]

Jamel Parker claims there was a "Whites Only" break room at Hobby airport until a renovation in 2016 remodeled the area and it was eliminated

https://www.chron.com/business/bizfeed/article/Former-Southwest-employee-sues-airline-for-13244553.php

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Parker began working for AirTran Airlines as a ramp agent in September 2008 and became a Southwest Airlines employee in 2013 due to the two airlines merging. He learned about the whites-only break room in 2013.

The lawsuit alleges that white employees made their own break room, called "WB" for "White Break Room," and that Southwest Airlines knew about the white break room. Parker's supervisor was aware of the break room's existence. And the only reason the room no longer exists is because a renovation turned that room into a supervisor office in 2016 or 2017.

 

Edited September 20, 2018 by Wally Fairway

[phdhorn 6224]

She wouldn't have liked it in there anyway.  They talk about American Girl stuff, Risk Astley albums, and ordering from etsy.

[po elvis 2070]

pretty sure the WB was referred that way by a few black employees as a running joke, not by the white employees.

[Tailleur17 361]

This is SO 2017.

[MrPhlegm 3413]

Risk Astley?



So it was more like an incel break room?

[Kyle 207]

Seems legit.

[Your Mom 4763]

Lulz at there being any white employees at ATL.

[XYZ 2154]

Yeah, who’s Risk Astley?

[Whitman 694]