Posted on 01/19/2022 8:48:02 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Another company has abandoned its plans for a vaccination mandate and mandatory routine testing roughly one week after the Supreme Court killed President Biden's plans to enforce a corporate vax mandate through OSHA.
To wit, Starbucks has joined the ranks of American megacorps including General Electric in rejecting vaccine mandates by pausing its plans to require baristas to get vaccinated, or receive weekly testing. The decision was reported shortly before President Joe Biden blasted the SCOTUS ruling as a "mistake" during his Wednesday press briefing.
Instead, Starbucks says it will "strongly encourage" baristas to get vaxxed while encouraging them to disclose their vaccination status. Culver said in the letter that more than 90% of workers already disclosed if they have been vaccinated. Meanwhile, the "vast majority" have been fully vaccinated, according to CNBC.
Starbucks employs some 228K people across the US.
Starbucks told employees on Wednesday it would no longer allow baristas to wear cloth masks to work. Instead, they have to wear at least one three-ply, medical-grade mask, or an N95, KN95 or KF94 mask. Furthermore, the company said that starting Thursday, it plans to temporarily expand its policy of requiring workers to self-isolation policy. That means baristas who are exposed at work, have ongoing close contact with someone who tests positive, have symptoms or have tested positive will be instructed to self-isolate, regardless of vaccination status. These workers will be eligible for Starbucks' self-isolation pay for missed shifts.
John Culver, the COO and the North American group president, said in the letter that more than 90% of workers had already disclosed if they have been vaccinated, and the "vast majority" have been fully vaccinated.
"While the [Emergency Temporary Standard] is now paused, I want to emphasize that we continue to believe strongly in the spirit and intent of the mandate," Culver said in a letter to the company's baristas that was viewed by CNBC.
We suspect Starbucks won't be the last American corporate giant to announce that it is abandoning its vaccination requirement. The decision comes as new research out of Israel and South Africa illustrates just how ineffective mRNA vaccines are at preventing people from being infected with the omicron variant.
RE: Starbucks Joins Growing List Of Companies Abandoning Vax Mandate for Employees After SCOTUS Ruling
Growing List? I only see Starbucks and General Electric. Yeah, I guess a glass that has some water in it is better than empty... but still...
Every talk show is making a big deal out of this. Weird.
People complain about the price of a gallon of gasoline and yet flock to those commies for an overpriced cup of burnt brown water.
The comments on DU are amazing and amusing.
Many snowflakes in total meltdown because they fear getting “COVID coffee”.
We have a deadly pandemic in progress—it is called hypochondria.
Fear kills!
Starbucks may be eager to throw the Masks away so that their cashiers on the front lines don’t have to play Mask Police anymore. Hopefully the airlines are mulling it over too.
“People complain about the price of a gallon of gasoline and yet flock to those commies for an overpriced cup of burnt brown water.”
Yup. I’m a rarity in L.A. , in Hollywood . I make my own coffee and carry it in a silver container. pre covid, basic coffee at SB was $3.50, now it’s $5. a 23.5 oz Folgers costs $7. Only idiots buy a sorry excuse for hot water dipped in a brown drawing crayon.
“they have to wear...” Friends don’t let friends go to Starbucks.
LOL - from the same barista they probably get their coffee from regularly. But now that they’re eschewing the stupid mandate, all of a sudden, it’s dangerous. 😱
Silly liberals.
I use a lot more gasoline than coffee.
I’m a little bit surprised that GE is doing this. My impression is that the larger and more technically oriented the corporation the more likely the corporate shills at the top were going to ram this through. I would expect that the easing of vax requirents would be a “bottom-up” phenomina.
Smaller & mid-sized companies (and perhaps low-tech companies, like Starbucks) are having lots of trouble finding workers. These companies have also born the brunt of the lockdowns masking & social distancing requirements.
Companies that support liberal/socialist government don’t have to worry about their liberal socialist government coming after them. That is why Starbucks and General Electric is probably doing this. Actually I don’t know if General Electric is in bed with the Democrats or not. Probably they are in bed with them right now because well that is the party in charge right now. If the Republicans gain back control of the government they will probably jump in bed with the government in charge.
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