{"id":28453,"date":"2020-09-22T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T16:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/?p=28453"},"modified":"2020-09-12T20:58:01","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T00:58:01","slug":"blacks-and-jews-band-together-to-fight-the-blondes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philip.greenspun.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/22\/blacks-and-jews-band-together-to-fight-the-blondes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blacks and Jews band together to fight the Blondes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-09-12\/united-sued-for-packing-nfl-charters-with-young-blond-crews\">&#8220;United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews&#8221;<\/a> (Bloomberg) warms my heart on so many levels, and not simply as a proud former Delta employee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>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.<\/p><p>The attendants &#8212; a Black woman who has worked for the airline for 28 years and a Jewish woman with 34 years of tenure &#8212; say that they both tried repeatedly and unsuccessfully to get assigned to work the charter flights.<\/p><p>Sharon Tesler and Kim Guillory said they were told by supervisors that they were unable to get work on the charters because they weren\u2019t on \u201cpreferred\u201d lists that were based on team preferences, according to the complaint.<\/p><p>They said they later discovered that young, white blond attendants &#8212; with less seniority &#8212; were given the assignments.<\/p><p>United Airlines \u201chas adopted and continues to implement procedures that are designed to ensure that young, white, blond\/blue-eyed, female employees receive positions with the charter program, while more senior, and Black and Jewish employees such as plaintiffs, do not,\u201d they said in the complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it fair to say that this repairs all of the damage from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1984\/02\/27\/us\/jackson-admits-saying-hymie-and-apologizes-at-a-synagogue.html\">the Jesse Jackson Hymietown incident<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;United Sued for Packing NFL Charters With Young, Blond Crews&#8221; (Bloomberg) warms my heart on so many levels, and not simply as a proud former Delta employee. 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