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United Airlines Prepares to Fire Employees Who Refuse Covid-19 Vaccinations
wsj ^ | Sept. 28, 2021 | Alison Sider

Posted on 09/29/2021 4:08:19 PM PDT by Mount Athos

United Airlines Holdings Inc. is moving ahead with plans to terminate close to 600 employees who didn’t meet its Covid-19 vaccination deadline, company officials said Tuesday.

United in August said it would require all of its 67,000 U.S. employees to be vaccinated—the first major U.S. airline and one of the first large U.S. companies to do so.

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1 posted on 09/29/2021 4:08:19 PM PDT by Mount Athos
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To: Mount Athos

The precedent has been started. Now companies can fire you because you eat too many cheeseburgers, or drink too much beer, or smoke.

But you can bet your prayer rug they won’t fire anyone for smoking pot or practicing actions that increase the risk of aids,


2 posted on 09/29/2021 4:11:51 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Dethrone the ruling elite. Redistribute their wealth. Take away their power. Annul their privileges.)
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To: Mount Athos

Am I having a problem with math or is that 0.9% of their workforce?


3 posted on 09/29/2021 4:12:36 PM PDT by rarestia (Repeal the 17th Amendment and ratify Article the First to give the power back to the people!)
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To: Mount Athos

But if you work for the USPS, you get a pass. I have real hatred for Biden and any democrat who voted for him.


4 posted on 09/29/2021 4:16:44 PM PDT by hillarys cankles
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To: Mount Athos

So don’t fly, go bankrupt, FU.


5 posted on 09/29/2021 4:17:29 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Mount Athos

And then hire illegals who don’t have to have the vaxx.


6 posted on 09/29/2021 4:18:09 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: Mount Athos

Customers should not accept excuses from the company while they try to get new-hires on line with their program. Zero tolerance with these totalitarian companies.


7 posted on 09/29/2021 4:22:22 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: SkyDancer

Airline exec.: There may be a young man on board the plane who can try to fly it.

2nd Exec. Over macho grande?


8 posted on 09/29/2021 4:26:35 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Yogafist

Right.

If they send some replacement Arab pilots who learned how to take off and fly in a flight school but then used an old public library book on how to land——refuse to get on the plane.


9 posted on 09/29/2021 4:28:28 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

He sweats too much.


10 posted on 09/29/2021 4:32:06 PM PDT by SkyDancer (How Can I Ask For Forgiveness If I Won't Forgive Others?)
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To: Mount Athos

United is no longer my airline of preference.


11 posted on 09/29/2021 4:32:24 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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He sweats too much.

Okay, then just ditch the plane into Lake Michigan where the crash will kill fewer people on the ground. Anything to show we can do without pilots who defy President Biden's Covid jab mandates.

12 posted on 09/29/2021 4:35:36 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Mount Athos

Note to United employees: The vaxxed and unvaxxed need to stand shoulder to shoulder. This only works if United can divide you.


13 posted on 09/29/2021 4:39:49 PM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

I do not believe that only 600 United employees are unvaccinated.


14 posted on 09/29/2021 4:42:15 PM PDT by RBW in PA
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To: Mount Athos

Gee, what ever happened to “Fly the friendly skies of United”?

I guess it doesn’t apply to their employees.


15 posted on 09/29/2021 4:44:34 PM PDT by twoputt
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To: Mount Athos

Everyone fired over not getting the vax should create the alternate economy.


16 posted on 09/29/2021 4:45:53 PM PDT by frogjerk (I will not do business with fascists)
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To: Mount Athos

How many Pilots ?


17 posted on 09/29/2021 4:53:02 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: I want the USA back

Ummm ... No. Smoking pot or taking other drugs or alcohol has always been a firing offense where I work. I have seen it first hand many times.

Also smoking is not allowed because of second hand smoke health issues with other people.

It’s kind of the same with Covid as you can give it to other people quickly but unlike smoking, the spread of the virus can eventually overload the hospitals creating a very serious public health issue.

No one is going to fire you for eating a cheeseburger or smoke after work but if your job requires you not to eat or smoke while working you could very well be disciplined.


18 posted on 09/29/2021 4:53:22 PM PDT by hawkaw
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To: frank ballenger

I speak jive, if you need it!


19 posted on 09/29/2021 4:55:37 PM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Dr. Ursus

Golly.


20 posted on 09/29/2021 4:58:01 PM PDT by I Drive Too Fast
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