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American Airlines policy allowing BLM pins faces backlash from workers
NY Post ^ | 09/06/2020 | Carl Campanile and Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

Posted on 09/06/2020 1:41:00 PM PDT by DFG

There’s pin-demonium brewing at American Airlines.

Top brass at the nation’s largest commercial jet carrier is facing turbulence from within after it announced that flight attendants are now allowed to wear Black Lives Matter pins on their uniforms while on duty.

The move has irked some of American’s white New York staffers, including those who have spouses or relatives who are cops — because they consider the BLM movement divisive and anti-police, saying it promotes or condones violence.

“I take offense to this,” one veteran flight attendant said in an email to airline management obtained by The Post. “Serious offense. My husband is a LEO (Law Enforcement Officer), as was my deceased father and as far as I’m concerned ALL LIVES MATTER.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: aa; american; americanairlines; bidensfault; blacksupremacy; blm; burnlootmurder; obamasfault; unamericanairlines
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1 posted on 09/06/2020 1:41:00 PM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG

Corporate cowardice has another price, internal dissent. Who would have ever guessed?


2 posted on 09/06/2020 1:43:05 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: 17th Miss Regt

How will the passengers respond?


3 posted on 09/06/2020 1:45:44 PM PDT by CondorFlight
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To: DFG

How about KKK pins? Oh no, that’s racist.


4 posted on 09/06/2020 1:49:27 PM PDT by antidemoncrat (Biden's)
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To: CondorFlight
How will the passengers respond?

By saying "Does that stand for 'Bad Liars Murder'? They can't kick you off the plane for that, can they?

5 posted on 09/06/2020 1:49:33 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: DFG

If AA thinks black lives are important they should design a pin that does not have the letters BLM. Those letters now represent a Marxist Revolutionary Violent group and they should be ashamed to not know that. How about BPM or BPC or POCC? Get a freakin’ clue AA.


6 posted on 09/06/2020 1:51:47 PM PDT by Savage Rider
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To: DFG
The move has irked some of American’s white New York staffers, including those who have spouses or relatives who are cops — because they consider the BLM movement divisive and anti-police, saying it promotes or condones violence.

Was the word "white" necessary here? Only white staffers with cop relatives were irked? Doubt it. Now the NY Post is pushing the "black" vs "white" narrative. Shame!

7 posted on 09/06/2020 1:53:27 PM PDT by throwthebumsout
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To: Savage Rider

I love this. Problem is the workers. The virus will cost them their jobs not virtue signaling objections.


8 posted on 09/06/2020 1:55:08 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: DFG

Airlines in favor of terrorism—what could possibly go wrong?


9 posted on 09/06/2020 1:55:13 PM PDT by cgbg (Masters don't want slaves talking about masters and slaves.)
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To: DFG
BLM = Burn--Loot--Murder
10 posted on 09/06/2020 1:55:53 PM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: antidemoncrat

“How about KKK pins? Oh no, that’s racist.”

Burn Loot Murder is just Black KKK


11 posted on 09/06/2020 1:56:24 PM PDT by dsrtsage (Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
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To: DFG

While one may well believe that black lives matter, it is something else again to show support for Black Lives Matter, which is an openly anti-American organization.


12 posted on 09/06/2020 1:57:49 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Does the left like anything about America?)
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To: DFG

They are going to lay off ten thousand workers at the end of October. I wonder if this is some kind of test.


13 posted on 09/06/2020 1:58:13 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: DFG

Who the Hell would want to fly on an airline whose employees wear a Marxist Anti-American BLM pin?? I’d be afraid of the employee desiring to crash the plane.


14 posted on 09/06/2020 2:00:06 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: DFG

This is bad corporate policy. It creates discord and divisions in the workplace. If I choose to not wear the pin, does that mean I don’t support BLM? My coworkers may treat me badly. What if my supervisor is wearing one? Do I now get crappy assignments? It is a bad idea for the workplace.


15 posted on 09/06/2020 2:00:47 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting.)
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To: dsrtsage

Burn Loot Murder is more like the Red Guards.


16 posted on 09/06/2020 2:01:01 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Savage Rider

The article does state:

“One symbolic way to show our support is through a uniform pin,” she said. “We are working with our Black Professional Network on designing a specific pin that may be worn with the uniform. In the interim until this pin is produced, to recognize the significance of this moment in history, we are allowing people to wear a Black Lives Matter Pin.”

In a statement to The Post Sunday, the airline said the company has employee “resource groups” working on several pin designs for various causes, including charitable groups that include UNICEF and others.

“Our Christian, veterans and LGBTQ groups, for example, have developed their own pin that can be worn as part of the uniform,” the statement said.


17 posted on 09/06/2020 2:01:25 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: DFG

I wouldn’t fly with them. Just that simple. It’s a terrorist organization destroying my fellow and truly peaceful Americans lives and I will not, under any circumstances, tolerate or accept it in my life.


18 posted on 09/06/2020 2:03:24 PM PDT by albie
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To: throwthebumsout

What I want to know is, how do they know the staffers are white? Did they doxx them?


19 posted on 09/06/2020 2:05:17 PM PDT by Spirit of Liberty (It's morning in America again!)
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To: roadcat

“Biden Liars Murder” is redundant

How bout “Biden Looters Murder”?

Oh wait, he and Hunter et al are looters too


20 posted on 09/06/2020 2:05:24 PM PDT by A_Former_Democrat (See George Fetanyl's mile-long Rap Sheet . . . TAG PedoJoe with "DEFUND the POLICE")
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