Ginny McDavid says she was fired by United Airlines in May after criticizing the controversial HISD superintendent during an encounter at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
Ginny McDavid, a Houston ISD parent and former United Airlines flight attendant, is trying to get her job back after saying she was fired for confronting and criticizing state-appointed Superintendent Mike Miles while off duty in the United Airlines lounge at Bush Intercontinental Airport.
McDavid filmed the encounter, which happened on April 9, and then shared it to social media. She alleges shortly after local news outlets reported on the altercation, Miles and his now-Deputy Chief of Staff Nici Esch, who McDavid says was with Miles during the incident, filed a complaint with United Airlines urging them to fire McDavid.
“I think [the news coverage is] kind of what irked Esch and Miles and prompted them to file a complaint,” McDavid told Houston Public Media. “Because they didn’t file their complaint until the following Monday.”…