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Texas airlines defy Abbott, comply with Biden vaccine order
The Hill ^ | 10/12/21 | KARL EVERS-HILLSTROM

Posted on 10/13/2021 8:01:16 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

American Airlines and Southwest Airlines will continue to require COVID-19 vaccinations for their employees as required by the Biden administration, defying Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s (R) executive order banning all vaccine mandates in the state.

The Texas-based carriers recently announced that all employees must get the shots to comply with the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement for federal contractors. Both airlines have large contracts with the U.S. government to transport supplies and federal officials.

Abbott signed an executive order Monday that prohibits any entity with 100 or more employees from implementing COVID-19 vaccine mandates, directly challenging the Biden administration’s vaccine requirement. The airlines said Tuesday that they will comply with the federal government rule over Abbott’s executive order.

“We are reviewing the executive order issued by Gov. Abbott, but we believe the federal vaccine mandate supersedes any conflicting state laws, and this does not change anything for American,” an American Airlines spokesperson said in a statement.

Southwest Airlines took the same stance Tuesday, stating that “federal action supersedes any state mandate or law.”

Nearly every major airline announced a vaccine mandate after the Biden administration said that all government contractors must be vaccinated by Dec. 8. Delta Air Lines, the only major carrier without a vaccine requirement, imposes a $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated workers.

Abbott’s new executive order is a reversal from his previous stance that the government shouldn’t tell private businesses how to handle vaccine mandates.

Renae Eze, Abbott's press secretary, said in a statement that the Biden administration rule "left employers with the unfair choice of either violating federal regulations or losing their valued employees."

"The Governor’s executive order will help protect Texans from having to make that choice,” she said.


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1 posted on 10/13/2021 8:01:16 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
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To: frank ballenger; cherry; Widget Jr; Trump Girl Kit Cat; AFB-XYZ; Justice; crusty old prospector; ...

PATRIOT PING


2 posted on 10/13/2021 8:03:07 PM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel (No weapon formed against me shall prosper! (Isaiah 54:17))
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

They will be others.


3 posted on 10/13/2021 8:04:59 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

They know which side of their bread is buttered.


4 posted on 10/13/2021 8:05:21 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
They know which side of their bread is buttered.

Translation:

Play brandonball or he'll shove the bat up Uranus

5 posted on 10/13/2021 8:08:01 PM PDT by null and void (As usual, the GOP was either totally unprepared for the onslaught or complicit in the tyranny)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Time for Texas to levy the fines and confiscate assets.

Start tomorrow with $1000 / day per employee.

How long until the State of Texas owns the entire AA fleet?
6 posted on 10/13/2021 8:08:24 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

So far there is no national order. Southwest is volunteering.


7 posted on 10/13/2021 8:10:51 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: null and void
Play brandonball or he'll shove the bat up Uranus

That's one for the Ages, nully!!

8 posted on 10/13/2021 8:11:05 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

The Federal “mandate” was only a press conference- there are NO LAWS OR REGULATIONS IN PLACE.


9 posted on 10/13/2021 8:11:58 PM PDT by datura (The voice that brought you peace has nothing left to say.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel
The Hill is utterly shameless!!

They lie like a rug.

10 posted on 10/13/2021 8:12:13 PM PDT by sauropod
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

No surprise.

This is what happens when you have any financial relationship with the feds.
They have ruined the schools
The universities
Scientific research
The banking industry
The auto industry
And are now ruining the medical profession (which is becoming the medical industry).

My tag line says it all.


11 posted on 10/13/2021 8:12:19 PM PDT by old curmudgeon (There is no situation so bad that the federal government can not make worse.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Federal law trumps state law... Unless it’s immigration or other leftist causes.


12 posted on 10/13/2021 8:12:21 PM PDT by Nathan _in_Arkansas (Hoist the black flag and begin slitting throats. )
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Who wants to be a passenger in a plane flown by a jabbed pilot?


13 posted on 10/13/2021 8:13:52 PM PDT by MulberryDraw (Stop trusting in man, who has but a breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?)
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To: indthkr

Governor has the powerto require quarantine on all their passengers which would shut them down.


14 posted on 10/13/2021 8:13:54 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Well, in that case good luck with the holiday rush, being short staffed and all.

And I am all in for an old fashioned sick out.


15 posted on 10/13/2021 8:14:57 PM PDT by patriot torch
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To: DesertRhino
"So far there is no national order. Southwest is volunteering."

If SWA has any contract with the federal gov't (e.g., mail) then EO 14042 applies, unless some court rules that the 10th Amendment overrides ChiComjoe's EO. You'll know when you see and hear pigs flying while singing songs.

16 posted on 10/13/2021 8:15:25 PM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

There is no federal law about forcing injections.
It’s something Senile Joe is doing without any legal authority, just like the Kenyanesian Usurper made up DACA out of thin air.


17 posted on 10/13/2021 8:16:56 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyColonel

These CEOs made a deal with the Devil at Davos - they aren’t going to listen to a Governor picked by the little people.


18 posted on 10/13/2021 8:18:12 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: bigbob
"Governor has the powerto require quarantine on all their passengers which would shut them down."

I would love to see the Governor of TX levy fines against AA and Southwest until the State of Texas owns ALL of their assets, at which point it can begin direct mask-optional service to the state of Florida, and other law-abiding states of the US.
19 posted on 10/13/2021 8:21:32 PM PDT by indthkr
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Unfortunately, the EO on contracts is something the President has the power to do. No company needs to renew their new contract with this added clause.

I read somewhere that SWA only receives about 3% of its revenue from Federal contracts so the question becomes, “why would they risk losing 30% of their flights by forcing the vaccines?”


20 posted on 10/13/2021 8:22:43 PM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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