Biden’s EO affects federal employees / federal contractors only – not all companies over 100 like he keeps talking about — Jack Posobiec
Southwest Airlines president Gary Kelly is lying.” — Jack Posobiec.
Lots of talk about “#FREEDOM FLU” the latest trending hashtag on Twitter, which describes what’s happening at Southwest Airlines and hospitals all over the country.
Flight Aware — as of 11:38 am ET this morning, 370 out of 903 potential flights have been delayed — 41% of all delays in America are SOUTHWEST.
From ZEROHEDGE
Southwest To Comply With Biden Vaccine Order, Ignore Texas Ban
BY TYLER DURDENTUESDAY, OCT 12, 2021 – 11:35 AM
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines will ignore a Texas Executive Order prohibiting any entity from imposing Covid-19 vaccine mandates on employees or customers.
Instead, the beleaguered airline will comply with a yet-to-be issued Biden federal mandate which requires that government employees and contractors get vaccinated, according to CEO Gary Kelly in a Tuesday interview with CNBC.
“I’ve never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate. I’m not in favor that. Never have been,” Kelly told “Squawk on the Street,” adding “But the executive order from President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors, which covers all the major airlines, have to have a [vaccine] mandate … in place by December the 8th, so we’re working through that.”
In addition to federal workers and contractors, President Biden announced a mandate last month which requires companies with 100 or more employees to ensure that their workforce is vaccinated or tested regularly. The Labor Department has yet to release details of the emergency rule, however Biden encouraged companies to ‘act now’ and not to wait for the requirement to go into effect.
In response, Texas Governor Greg Abbott issued an executive order on Monday which prohibits any entity – including private businesses, from imposing vaccine mandates on either employees or customers.
“The COVID-19 vaccine is safe, effective, and our best defense against the virus, but should remain voluntary and never forced,” said Abbott in a statement. The rule follows several executive orders Abbott issued over the summer banning local governments and school districts from mask or vaccination mandates – with $1,000 fines for those who fail to comply.
Last week, Southwest announced that its 56,000-person workforce would need to be fully vaccinated with the Covid-19 jab by Dec. 8 in order to remain employed – an announcement which came days after other carriers (including American Airlines, Alaska Airlines and JetBlue Airways) announced similar measures, according to CNBC.
Doubling down on the airline’s claim that widespread flight disruptions over the past four days weren’t related to an employee protest over the mandate, Kelly blamed “absenteeism” – which, we’re quite frankly
THREAD
“The new vaccine mandate unlawfully imposes new conditions of employment and the new policy threatens termination of any pilot not fully vaccinated by December 8, 2021.”
“Counsel for [the pilots] has conferred with counsel for Southwest Airlines in a good-faith attempt to resolve this dispute by agreement. No agreement could be reached because Southwest Airlines refuses to negotiate…”
“Specifically, Southwest Airlines has overtly and unabashedly, repeatedly taken unilateral actions which violate the parties’ status quo and which are contrary to the requirements under [federal law].”
Does the CEO of Southwest realize he can’t fly his planes without pilots? He has zero leverage.
