United Needed Younger, Blue-Eyed, Blonde Ladies to Employees LA Dodgers Flights, Lawsuit Says

United Airways UAL.O has been sued by two longtime flight attendants who say they have been excluded from extremely coveted assignments to work on constitution flights for the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball staff due to their racial background and age.

In a criticism filed on Wednesday with the Los Angeles County Superior Court docket, Daybreak Todd and Darby Quezada mentioned they have been handed over in favor of flight attendants who have been “white, younger, skinny ladies who’re predominately blond and blue-eyed,” and match a “sure look” that the Dodgers gamers appreciated.

Todd, 50, is Black, and Quezada, 44, is of Mexican, Black and Jewish descent. Each mentioned they’ve labored for United for greater than 15 years, and are searching for unspecified damages for alleged discrimination and harassment.

In an announcement, United mentioned: “United fosters an surroundings of inclusion and doesn’t tolerate discrimination of any sort. We imagine this lawsuit is with out benefit and intend to defend ourselves vigorously.”

The Los Angeles Instances reported the lawsuit earlier on Friday. The Dodgers usually are not a defendant. A staff spokesperson mentioned the Dodgers don’t touch upon pending litigation.

Todd and Quezada mentioned they’d been chosen for the Dodgers constitution flight program, which may provide double or triple the compensation of normal flights, after United confronted an identical lawsuit in 2020 over its staffing of athletic groups’ flights.

They mentioned issues modified final 12 months when a number of white flight attendants have been added to this system, ultimately resulting in Todd getting fewer assignments and Quezada being faraway from this system completely.

The criticism mentioned that after Todd objected to being bypassed regardless of her seniority, United retaliated towards her and Quezada, together with when staff and managers known as Todd the “flight’s maid” and demeaned her in flights and conferences.

Each plaintiffs mentioned United’s therapy price them earnings and led to extreme panic assaults, nervousness, losses of vanity and sleep and different situations, requiring psychological therapy.

The case is Quezada et al v United Airways Inc et al, California Superior Court docket, Los Angeles County, No. 23STCV26112.

(Reporting by Stempel in New York; Modifying by Daniel Wallis)

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