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CNN Fires Three Employees For Coming To Work Unvaccinated
AP via NPR ^ | 8/05/21

Posted on 08/06/2021 2:31:57 AM PDT by Libloather

NEW YORK - CNN has fired three employees who violated company policy by coming to work unvaccinated against the COVID-19 virus.

CNN chief Jeff Zucker told staff members of the firing in a memo sent Thursday that reminded them that vaccines were mandatory if they report to the office or out in the field where they come into contact with other employees.

"Let me be clear - we have a zero tolerance policy on this," wrote Zucker, chairman of news and sports for WarnerMedia.

The memo was obtained by The Associated Press after its contents were first tweeted by CNN media reporter Oliver Darcy. CNN offered no details on the firings, or where the employees were based.

Most of CNN's offices are already open on a voluntary basis, and Zucker said more than a third of news staff members have returned. Proof of vaccination has been left to the honor system, he said, but that may change in coming weeks.

**SNIP**

The CNN memo also said a planned Sept. 7 company-wide return to the office will be delayed until at least early to mid-October. Other media companies have been making similar decisions because of the rise in COVID cases; the AP told employees on Thursday that an expected Sept. 13 return is also be delayed.

(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: cnn; covid; socialists; vaccine; wheatandchaff
I suggest they shut down the whole operation - to save the planet.
1 posted on 08/06/2021 2:31:57 AM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

The battle lines are clear, folks. This is what Civil War II looks like. Fight back now or we will lose all our freedoms.


2 posted on 08/06/2021 2:39:57 AM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Libloather

This certainly opens the option for lawsuits.

All personnel must be transparent with their communicable diseases and treatment progress, ALL! You just can’t cherry pick one communicable disease over another.

The control freaks have opened Pandora’s box and there is no going back.


3 posted on 08/06/2021 2:45:45 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Libloather

Democrats have a ‘Zero Tolerance’ policy on a lot of things. Covid Vaccinations... Sexual Harassment... Oh, wait! Scratch that last one!


4 posted on 08/06/2021 3:13:42 AM PDT by Tallguy
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To: Libloather

Only friends fire friends from CNN...


5 posted on 08/06/2021 3:25:05 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Enlightened1

Right now the discrimination is against those of us that resist the Covid vaccine.

How long before the discrimination is against Christians, Jews, heterosexuals, homosexuals, blacks, Asians, etc, etc?


6 posted on 08/06/2021 3:45:45 AM PDT by CPONav
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To: Libloather

I don’t believe XiNN.

Name the employees. Show us the pink slips.


7 posted on 08/06/2021 3:53:22 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: CPONav

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family?

Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?...

The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!

If...if...if...

We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956


8 posted on 08/06/2021 3:54:20 AM PDT by polymuser (BLA socialist is a communist without the power to take everything from their citizens...yet.)
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To: Libloather

Hopefully they had contracts that will make it easier to

SUE !!! SUE !!! SUE !!!


9 posted on 08/06/2021 3:55:26 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: joma89

Implied doctrine at CNN -

Discipline, man. You go lax for even a second, and your guard is down, you will get OBLITERATED.

You want choice? We’ll show you choice - our choice to bust your rump if you give us any sass.

You’ll never work in this town again.


10 posted on 08/06/2021 4:28:36 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Poor people give rich people all their money anyway. Just as they have always done.)
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To: Libloather

So many American workers who did not lose their jobs during the pandemic soldiered on with workplace disruption and put up with all the restrictions for a year and a half, only now to face losing their jobs if they don’t want an experimental vaccine which we have been learning does not work very well and comes with serious health risks. I despise the government and the employers who are doing this to them.


11 posted on 08/06/2021 4:53:05 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: Libloather

Sounds like a law suit to me.


12 posted on 08/06/2021 5:21:29 AM PDT by spincaster (i)
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To: Enlightened1

hope you are correct. Keep waiting for the lawsuits but have not heard about any.


13 posted on 08/06/2021 5:23:19 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Libloather

if they work for CNN it must mean that they are ok with lying, why didn’t they just lie and say they were vaccinated?


14 posted on 08/06/2021 5:25:19 AM PDT by euram
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To: Libloather

Employers cannot mandate risky medical procedures. Someone should become very wealthy.


15 posted on 08/06/2021 5:29:16 AM PDT by bray (Hating Whites is racist)
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To: Libloather

Were they stealth conservatives?


16 posted on 08/06/2021 5:40:02 AM PDT by dynachrome ("I will not be reconstructed, and I do not give a damn.")
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To: Libloather

Interesting what CNN chooses to fire its employees for...


17 posted on 08/06/2021 6:08:13 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: God luvs America

I’ve already heard a few Attorneys that said they are filing lawsuits as soon as next week.


18 posted on 08/06/2021 6:12:17 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Libloather

How does CNN know.
I say I’m vaccinated. HIPPA says they don’t get to check my records.


19 posted on 08/06/2021 6:44:47 AM PDT by Little Ray (Civilization runs on a narrow margin. What sustains it is not magic, but hard work. )
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To: Enlightened1

I pray they do.


20 posted on 08/06/2021 8:33:34 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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