The ejection of a nursing mother from a Delta Air Lines commuter flight last month prompted plans for "nurse-ins" held Tuesday at more than a dozen airports, including Detroit Metropolitan.
Emily Gillette, 27, filed a complaint last week against Delta Air Lines Inc. and Freedom Airlines, which operated the commuter flight for the Atlanta-based carrier, over the Oct. 13 incident at Burlington International Airport. In the complaint, Gillette said she was breast-feeding daughter River, 1, aboard the New York-bound plane when a flight attendant tried to hand her a blanket and told her to cover up.
When Gillette balked, she and her husband were ordered off the plane before takeoff, triggering a complaint with the Vermont Human Rights Commission, a "nurse-in" last week at that airport and now the national protest action, which was scheduled for 10 a.m. local time at 19 airports from Anchorage to Islip, N.Y.
click to read more...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment