Trump-Aligned Group’s Latest Target Is Airline Diversity Efforts

America First Legal, a conservative group aligned with former President Donald Trump, is targeting three of the country’s biggest airlines as it ramps up its attacks on corporate diversity initiatives.

-rte-company state=”{“_id”:”0000018b-8cac-db85-afab-aebc075b0000″,”_type”:”00000160-4b23-d8bd-adfd-4b3348fd0000″}”>American Airlines, -bsp-bb-link state=”{“bbHref”:”bbg://securities/1281118D%20US%20Equity”,”_id”:”0000018b-8cac-db85-afab-aebc075b0001″,”_type”:”0000016b-944a-dc2b-ab6b-d57ba1cc0000″}”>United Airlines and Southwest Airlines Co. are facing a civil rights complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that alleges their efforts to hire and promote more women and people of color amount to “illegal racial and sex discrimination.”

“Major corporations think that it’s OK to have goals for the demographic makeup of their workforces, with no self-awareness of the illegal practices that they will undoubtedly …