Baggage handler Kip Hedges files suit over firing

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/articles/baggage-handler-kip-hedges-files-suit-over-firing

By Barb Kucera, Workday Minnesota
May 31, 2015

BLOOMINGTON
Kip Hedges, the baggage handler fired for remarks he made in a Workday Minnesota video in support of low-wage airport workers, has filed suit to challenge his termination.

The suit was filed Thursday in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis. It alleges that Delta Air Lines violated the Railway Labor Act, which governs collective bargaining in airlines and other transportation, by firing Hedges in December for remarks he made at a rally outside of work hours. (link is external)

Hedges has been active in trying to organize a union among ground workers at Delta and in 15Now, (link is external)a movement to raise wages among airport workers to $15 an hour.

FULL story at link.

Published on Dec 5, 2014
Kip Hedges, a Delta baggage handler, was fired for speaking out in support of efforts to raise the minimum wage at MSP Airport to $15 per hour. He tells supporters at an airport rally Dec. 5 exactly what he said that got him fired.