I didn't even see it when I went back to see what in the dickens you were talking about.
Then it hit me...
Posted on 11/02/2021 8:59:45 AM PDT by george76
In Wichita, Kansas, nearly half of the roughly 10,000 employees at aircraft companies Textron Inc and Spirit AeroSystems remain unvaccinated against COVID-19, risking their jobs in defiance of a federal mandate, according to a union official.
"We're going to lose a lot of employees over this," said Cornell Adams, head of the local Machinists union district. Many workers did not object to the vaccines as such, he said, but were staunchly opposed to what they see as government meddling in personal health decisions.
The union district has hired a Texas-based lawyer to assist employees and prepare potential lawsuits against the companies should requests for medical or religious exemptions to vaccination be denied.
A life-long Democrat, Adams said he would no longer vote for the party. "They'll never get another vote from me and I'm telling the workers here the same thing."
The clock is ticking for companies that want to continue gaining federal contracts under an executive order by Democratic President Joe Biden, which requires all contractor employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 8.
That means federal contract workers need to have received their last COVID-19 shot at least two weeks before the deadline to gain maximum protection, according to U.S. government guidance.
With a three-week gap between shots of the Pfizer /BioNTech vaccine, workers must get the first jab by Wednesday. If the government holds fast to its deadline, it is already too late to choose Moderna's vaccine, which is given in two doses four weeks apart. Workers could opt to get Johnson & Johnson's single-shot vaccine until Nov. 24 to meet the deadline.
The mandate has stirred protests from workers in industries across the country, as well as from Republican state officials.
Opposition to the mandate could potentially lead to thousands of U.S. workers losing their jobs and imperil an already sluggish economic recovery, union leaders, workers and company executives said.
More legal clashes are likely over how companies decide requests for vaccination exemptions.
For the companies, time is getting tight, though the Biden administration has signaled federal contractors will not have to immediately lay off unvaccinated workers who miss the Dec. 8 deadline.
Under government guidance https://www.saferfederalworkforce.gov/faq/contractors published on Monday, companies will have flexibility over how to implement the mandate, which may allow them to avoid mass firings.
"A covered contractor should determine the appropriate means of enforcement with respect to its employee," the guidance said.
For Boeing Co in the United States, more than 7,000 workers have applied for religious exemptions and around 1,000 are seeking medical exemptions, people familiar with the matter told Reuters. That amounts to some 6% of the planemaker's roughly 125,000 U.S employees.
'ILLEGAL, IMMORAL AND IMPRACTICAL'
At a rally last week outside Boeing property in Auburn, south of Seattle, many of the three dozen workers gathered in driving rain said they would rather be escorted off Boeing property on Dec. 8 than take a vaccine. Others said they would pursue early retirement.
"The mandate is illegal, immoral and impractical," said one veteran Boeing program analyst who attended the rally. "We are standing together against a company and government trampling on our rights."
Many legal experts have said vaccine mandates in the interest of public health are legal.
The rebellion has put Boeing executives in a bind. The company could lose skilled staff, but must comply with a presidential order.
A Boeing spokesperson said the company was committed to maintaining a safe working environment for its employees.
The order's provision for religious and medical exemptions is causing more tension.
Two Textron workers who requested religious exemptions told Reuters the company's human resources representatives quizzed them on the name of their church leaders and asked detailed questions about their faith.
Textron declined to respond to questions, but in a statement said it was obligated to comply with Biden's order and was taking steps to do so.
"Employees who are unable to receive the COVID-19 vaccination due to a medical condition or sincerely held religious belief are being provided an opportunity to request an accommodation from this requirement," Textron said.
Spirit AeroSystems did not respond to a request for comment.
Raytheon Technologies' CEO Greg Hayes last week warned the U.S. defense firm will lose "several thousand" employees because of the mandate.
A group representing FedEx Corp, United Parcel Service Inc and other cargo carriers said it would be virtually impossible to have all their workforces vaccinated by the deadline.
Some companies have imposed vaccine mandates even absent immediate government regulation.
Mercedes-Benz USA, the U.S. unit of German carmaker Daimler AG which is not a U.S. government contractor, told employees in an October email seen by Reuters that proof of vaccination against COVID-19 would become a condition of employment beginning Jan. 4.
The carmaker said it implemented the move in anticipation of a separate U.S. government vaccine mandate that would apply to businesses with at least 100 employees, affecting some 80 million workers nationwide.
Less than half of the company's workers at U.S. import processing centers are vaccinated and many refuse to get a shot, according to a source familiar with the matter.
Mercedes USA in a statement said it had given employees 90-day notice to fulfill the requirement, adding that two thirds of its U.S. employees - not including factory workers in Alabama - have provided proof of vaccination to date.
"We expect that the vast majority of our employees will provide proof of vaccination before the deadline," the company said.
I didn't even see it when I went back to see what in the dickens you were talking about.
Then it hit me...
Sheet happens...............
The point I was making is Alabama is majority non-vaccinated more than almost all other states.
I agree that anyone can be replaced (well, maybe not Rush Limbaugh) but finding someone willing to work in Alabama who also has been vaxxed is going to be hard.
I don’t think they can fire all the non-vaxxed this month and still keep the line going. It will cost them. Government needs to F off.
Thank you. Catherine Austin Fitts is absolutely brilliant. Her video Planet Lockdown from last year put together so many pieces about all of this, vaccines, mandates, passports. etc.
This is an unprecedented political climate in which conservative, MAGA Republicans cannot lose. The only thing that can screw it up is making the mistake of listening to the Karl Roves and Mitch McConnells of the world.
YES!! Thank you!
“Fetal cells (dead kids) were used in the testing process for all three Western vaccines, to the best of my knowledge.”
Not only are the babies delivered alive, horrifically, their organs are often removed when they are still alive.[18] This is how they got the HEK293 kidney cells used in the manufacture of the vaccines and why Pfizer wanted it to remain a secret:
The details of HEK293’s brutal – and from all appearances, until very recently, largely undisclosed – origins explain the company’s deep discomfort. Contrary to nearly a half-century of misrepresentation and obfuscation, HEK293’s creation did NOT arise from an “abortion” as everyday people understand it.
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To harvest a viable embryonic kidney … sufficiently healthy children old enough to have adequately-developed kidneys must be removed from the womb, alive, typically by cesarean section, and have their kidneys cut out. This must take place without anesthesia for the child, which would lessen the viability of the organs.
I make every attempt to be germane.
So. On topic...
“...if religious scruples afford immunity from civic obedience to laws, they may be invoked by the religious beliefs of any individual even though he holds no membership in any sect or organized denomination. Certainly this Court cannot be called upon to determine what claims of conscience should be recognized and what should be rejected as satisfying the ‘religion’ which the Constitution protects. That would indeed resurrect the very discriminatory treatment of religion which the Constitution sought forever to forbid.”
— 319 U.S. 624, WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al. v. BARNETTE et al.,
Mr. Justice Frankfurter, Dissenting
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/319/624
You qualify.
My ‘ignorance’ is cured by more info - which you have supplied.
Thanks for continuing my education.
I have farmers on all four sides of me. They don’t water, but they sure do a lot of other things; both before and after they plant that seed.
I’m impressed by the size of the machines they use! None of which is going to be offered in an electric model any time soon.
Does this apply to state or local level as well?
Speaking of med school.
Perhaps we’d not have health problems in this country if 50% of our doctors and nurses did not come from the lower half of their graduating classes.
Snags I can understand.
It almost seems like magic to me that software can take the CAD design and produce a toolpath instruction list for the NC machines!
When these snags appear, and the machinist figures out a way to get from point A to point B, do they then add those instructions manually so that the next time the part is created it no longer hits a snag at that location?
Gosh; I sure did!! Sorry fellas.
I see my mistake.
When I typed 'punching up' I failed to realize it could be taken as actually creating the code. I merely meant to load the already created program into memory from an existing file.
Amen!
I’ve encountered bad designs both pre and post NC stuff.
I have always said that ‘designers’ should work a couple of years in the manufacturing end to see how things can be created that are a LOT easier to build!
But, once the bad designs are corrected, NC makes things go a HECK of a lot faster, a lot more standardized and a higher quality over all.
Cheaper; too!
Foundations.
Make sure that yours is built on Rock: not sand.
Heck; I can't even find sparkplug wires in my 2020 Grand Cherokee!
The got rid of those. Each plug has its own dedicated coil sitting on top of it.
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