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Southwest Pilots File Lawsuit to Halt COVID Vaccine Mandate
uncoverdc.com ^ | 10/12/2021 | Michelle Edwards

Posted on 10/12/2021 5:24:53 PM PDT by bitt

On Oct. 8, 2021, Southwest Airlines Pilots Association (SWAPA) filed a motion for temporary and preliminary injunctive relief in its ongoing lawsuit with Southwest Airlines, Co., initially filed on Aug. 30, 2021. The original complaint asserts the airlines are in violation of the Railway Labor Act (RLA), among other things, Sec. 6, which requires the parties to maintain “status quo” until a new agreement is reached. The lawsuit maintains that the carrier can not alter pay rates, rules, and working conditions until a new agreement is reached. Friday’s filing, seeking an immediate hearing, declares:

“Most recently, on Oct. 4, 2021, Southwest Airlines unilaterally rolled out a new and non-negotiated COVID vaccine mandate for all employees, including SWAPA. The new vaccine mandate unlawfully imposes new conditions of employment, and the new policy threatens termination of any pilot not fully vaccinated by Dec. 8, 2021. Southwest Airlines’ additional new and unilateral modifications of the parties’ collective bargaining agreement is in clear violation of the RLA.”

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The original Aug. 30 complaint, which was amended on Oct. 6, 2021, emphasizes that the two parties—SWAPA and Southwest Airlines—currently have a “major dispute” within the meaning of the RLA and related case law and talks to improve the relevant collective bargaining agreement (CBA). More specifically, the claim states that during the COVID-19 pandemic, Southwest Airlines issued and implemented an “Infectious Disease Control Policy” that unquestionably altered Pilots’ working conditions, rules, and pay rates.

The initial claim explains the CBA (which covered the period from Sept. 1, 2012, through Aug. 31, 2020) instructs that either party may give written notice of its desire to modify the Agreement at least sixty days before Mar. 1 or each year beginning Mar. 1, 2020. Following those guidelines, SWAPA served its notice to Southwest Airlines on Nov. 1, 2019, and the parties met on Jan. 9, 2020, to begin immediate negotiations.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: covid; southwestpilots; vaccinemandate
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1 posted on 10/12/2021 5:24:53 PM PDT by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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2 posted on 10/12/2021 5:25:08 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: bitt

That explains the “weather” problems.


3 posted on 10/12/2021 5:30:34 PM PDT by grumpygresh (Civil disobedience by jury nullification. )
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To: grumpygresh

“That explains the “weather” problems.”

Indisputable evidence of global climate change.

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4 posted on 10/12/2021 5:33:45 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: bitt

The vaccine mandates fail to acknowledge natural immunity as a result of a COVID infection. Such a rigid application of a mandate is offensive and proves that government is behaving like a dictatorship. Further, when they don’t care about how they look further creates a lightening rod for fury they don’t need.


5 posted on 10/12/2021 5:37:12 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: bitt

Now thats a flying fu*k to Joe Bidens non mandate -mandate. Biden has not even produced an executive hoarder!

Private COmpany? Can do whatever it wants? order its staff to take an experimantal drug?

Wait until the USA data submitted into evidence shows over 150,000 VAERS deaths from the vaccine.

I mean really. And its science.

See:
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Why are people dying after getting the Covid vaccine? Pathologists now have answers
rcm ^ | 9/26/21 | Calvin Luther Martin, PhD

Posted on 2021-10-12, 2:30:27 PM by Roman_War_Criminal

https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4002975/posts

Thread article:

https://rivercitymalone.com/health/pathologists-investigate-deaths-after-covid-vaccination/

“Using the VAERS [Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System] database and independent rates of anaphylaxis events from a Mass. General [Hospital] study, we computed a 41x under-reporting factor for serious adverse events in VAERS, leading to an estimate of over 150,000 excess deaths caused by the vaccine. The estimates were validated multiple independent ways.[1] “

Links to scientofic data, and symposiums included, just go take a look.

I’d say that SWA management is in deep Shipoopoo.


6 posted on 10/12/2021 5:39:38 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: jonrick46
"I have a phone and a pen"

-Barack Obama

"I have Barack Obama's staff, a phone, a pen, and a plandemic"

-Joe Brandon Biden.

7 posted on 10/12/2021 5:45:26 PM PDT by blackdog (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Lurker

I was listening to the Joe Pag show in the car and several pilots called in.

They said it’s just starting.

Soon, tens of thousands of airline employees will be “calling in sick” because they refuse to take the jab.

All of them said it had jack to do with the “weather” and Psicko is a damn liar.


8 posted on 10/12/2021 5:50:38 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: blackdog

PedoJoe is everything they accused Trump of being, a hundred times worse.

Stinking nazis.


9 posted on 10/12/2021 5:52:07 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: Salamander

“They said it’s just starting.”

Most of them have no idea just how right they are.

Best get ready.

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10 posted on 10/12/2021 5:55:43 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Candor7

Southwest is a federal contractor, they are not doing this because of the fake OSHA mandate. The CEO has already said he didn’t want to do this, but under EO 14042, implemented with the release of FAR 52.223-99, he either has to comply or give up all federal contracts and likely be sued by the government for failing to execute (flying federal government employees / military on official travel or federal cargo transport).


11 posted on 10/12/2021 5:59:12 PM PDT by LambSlave
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To: Lurker

God willing.

Do it.


12 posted on 10/12/2021 6:01:52 PM PDT by Salamander ("Salamander has barbaric tendencies" /Gundog)
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To: LambSlave

That gives the pilots an even stronger case.

All they have to do is get the VAERS data into evidence.


13 posted on 10/12/2021 6:02:52 PM PDT by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: LambSlave

Your pilots license is only as good as your current medical. That’s every six months. I don’t want to give Biden any ideas, but that medical is the gold key to being a pilot. Fail to comply with the medical requirements and you’re out of a job. The airline has nothing to do with that.


14 posted on 10/12/2021 6:06:53 PM PDT by blackdog (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: bitt

Every time Trump signed an EO, the left IMMEDIATELY found a district judge to stop it in its tracks and delay, delay, delay...


15 posted on 10/12/2021 6:15:36 PM PDT by HandBasketHell
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To: bitt

Everybody now! We’re not gonna take it!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cTC1TEVo3Aw

[insert Twisted Sister photo here] How heck do ya’ll get photos in your posts? Mine won’t paste


16 posted on 10/12/2021 6:54:21 PM PDT by dkGba (God Bless America dkGba)
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To: bitt

More lawsuits are needed.

Report: Boeing requiring employees to get COVID vaccine
https://www.q13fox.com/news/report-boeing-requiring-employees-to-get-covid-vaccine


17 posted on 10/12/2021 6:55:50 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (I need more money. )
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To: bitt

But wait. I thought they only had ‘weather’ problems. /sarc


18 posted on 10/12/2021 6:57:47 PM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: dkGba
Your picture has to be on a 3rd party website that can be reached by any person browsing.

Then just <img src="http://3rd-party-website.com/picture.jpg">

19 posted on 10/12/2021 6:57:48 PM PDT by Cboldt
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To: bitt

Let’s go Brandon!

Plugs isn’t running things. A bunch of wild eyed radicals are and they probably have no idea now little power they have and how much resolve some people in this country have.

The radicals are hiding though. They have to be found and drug into the streets.

What happened to Melguin Lopez Santos can happen to others can’t it?

Refuse. Resist. Solidarity.


20 posted on 10/12/2021 7:09:27 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Politicians are only marginally good at one thing, being politicians. Otherwise they are fools.I ha)
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