Breast-feeding case leads to punishment

[ckramer]

A commuter airline has disciplined a flight attendant who ordered a passenger off a plane for refusing to cover herself with a blanket while breast-feeding her toddler, the airline said Friday.
Freedom Airlines spokesman Paul Skellon did not specify the discipline in an e-mail announcing the action against the employee who had Emily Gillette, of Santa Fe, removed from the plane Oct. 13 at Burlington International Airport.

Gillette, 27, said she was breast-feeding her 22-month-old daughter in a window seat in the next-to-last row, with no part of her breast showing and her husband between her and the aisle.

The flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up, Gillette said. She declined, telling the flight attendant she had a legal right to nurse her daughter. Breast-feeding is protected under state law.

The case received broad news coverage this week, days after Gillette filed a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission. On Wednesday, about 30 parents and their children protested the airline's treatment of Gillette by staging a "nurse-in" at the Burlington airport.

Skellon said that after the flight attendant ordered Gillette off the plane, the captain of the Delta Air Lines flight being operated by Freedom apologized and asked her family to reboard, but they refused.

Gillette, however, said the airline never offered her a chance to get back on board the New York-bound plane. "I would have jumped at the opportunity," she said.

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2006-11-17-breastfeed-discipline_x.htm

[William769]

1. The flight attendant should br fired.

[colorado_ufo]

10. She made a mistake.

People can learn from their mistakes. It's not like she reported for work drunk or assaulted a passenger. We should not be so ready to scream, "Off with her head!" and take away a person's career. No doubt it will never happen again.

[sandrakae]

14. She should know her fucking job. You don't just throw people off airplanes.

[William769]

15. This wasn't a mistake.

You don't make a mistake like this.

[piedmont]

2. dupe-- it's on the Discussion board

[Miss Chybil]

3. What does that mean? nt

[piedmont]

4. only that the topic is addressed already by another thread.

It's a duplicate. You can find the first one here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2753780&mesg_id=2753780

[Miss Chybil]

6. Ok, but that's in GD and not in LBN. You can cross post in different

threads. We all don't read every forum. Like me, I usually only read LBN and the Greatest page.

[piedmont]

8. I learn something new every day

I still recommend viewing the other thread too.
:hi:

[proud2BlibKansan]

13. But linked articles in LBN can't be this old

This belongs in GD, not in LBN.

[bemildred]

5. Good. I'm glad that didn't take too long. nt

[pnorman]

7. "staging a nurse-in"

What a LOVELY thought! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

pnorman

[Spinzonner]

9. Already done on that political harbinger

Married with Children

[NVMojo]

11. when I breastfed my three sons, I hated being sent to the toilets to feed

so some uptight American raised pervert could feel clean about their own beautiful mind.

[WindRavenX]

12. I would've raised holy hell if I had to do that

Toilets are fucking disgusting-- you're feeding a damn kid, not taking a shit. For cryin' out loud-- why would anyone want to eat their meal in the bathroom? :wtf:

They're tits people. And they have a function: to feed the baby. Not to get you off.

This country is so fucking backwards sometimes...