Nearly 600 United Airlines employees losing their jobs after refusing to get vaccinated; company sa
Source: Chicago Tribune
More than 99% of United Airlines U.S.-based employees who did not seek a religious or medical exemption from the companys COVID-19 vaccine mandate got the shots, while 593 who refused to comply will lose their jobs.
Chicago-based United shared the results of compliance with its vaccine requirement Tuesday, its deadline to provide proof of vaccination.
This is a historic achievement for our airline and our employees as well as for the customers and communities we serve, United CEO Scott Kirby and president Brett Hart said in a memo to employees. Our rationale for requiring the vaccine for all Uniteds U.S.-based employees was simple to keep our people safe and the truth is this: Everyone is safer when everyone is vaccinated, and vaccine requirements work.
Less than 3% of the companys 67,000 U.S. employees requested religious or medical exemptions. Earlier this month, United said employees granted exemptions would be placed on temporary leave Oct. 2, while those whose requests were denied would have five weeks to get the shots or face termination.
Read more: https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-united-airlines-vaccine-mandate-update-20210928-hrkp3jaynvfvbbh6jmeb6bxyoa-story.html
Full article headline:
Nearly 600 United Airlines employees losing their jobs after refusing to get vaccinated; company says vaccination rate at 99%
LonePirate
(13,420 posts)dixiechiken1
(2,113 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)vanlassie
(5,670 posts)ZonkerHarris
(24,225 posts)cadoman
(792 posts)600 more jobs available for 600 wonderful, vaccinated immigrants. Welcome to the USA and thank you for respecting the safety of your new neighbors!
DownriverDem
(6,228 posts)lose my income over a vaccination. What is their Plan B?
durablend
(7,460 posts)wnylib
(21,449 posts)airline would eventually cave in to them. "They can't fire us all."
Might also have illusions of being missed so much and hurting United enough by their absence that management will call them back to work.
whopis01
(3,512 posts)They cant fire less than 1% of us. Which is exactly what happened. Less than 1% of their workforce. I think theyll get by until they fill those positions again.
wnylib
(21,449 posts)United will get by without the 1% or less who were fired. I was only speculating on what the vaccine refusers were telling themselves about their stubborn refusal. If they thought, or hoped, that there would be too many of them for the airline to follow through with firings, they would also have hoped that sticking with their refusal would make a difference. Obviously, if that is what they thought, they were wrong.
I have a medical appointment tomorrow morning that will require me to remove my mask during a face examination. Although I am fully vaccinated, I wear a mask everywhere due to age and health issues. So I am very glad that my governor, Kathy Hochul, has made vaccinations for all healthcare workers mandatory.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)Asking for a friend.
GregariousGroundhog
(7,521 posts)Per the article, the unvaccinated will be put on paid leave (if they have a medical exemption) or unpaid leave (if they have a religious exemption) beginning October 3rd. Those employees without either exemption will be put on unpaid leave, and have five weeks to become vaccinated before being terminated.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)I'm sure a few weeks (or maybe even days) of cooling their heels with no money coming in will cause a change of thought in more than most.
DanieRains
(4,619 posts)They can apply at kill your customer companies.
RockRaven
(14,966 posts)airplanes/air travel anyway. So this story sounds good to me.
usaf-vet
(6,185 posts)Lucky Luciano
(11,254 posts)Heartstrings
(7,349 posts)nycbos
(6,034 posts)Maybe I'll apply for a job at United.
Get that employee ticket discount.
marble falls
(57,081 posts)vanlassie
(5,670 posts)marble falls
(57,081 posts)erronis
(15,241 posts)I've been phoning my doctors' offices to ask if everyone in the office is vaccinated before I'll visit.
Dumb, dumber, dumbest - the anti-vaxxers.
louis-t
(23,292 posts)They can go work for $11 an hour.
The Jungle 1
(4,552 posts)Baggage handlers median pay is 31 grand. I would guess they do get healthcare.
Major Nikon
(36,827 posts)They are pretty much exclusively Q-loons. At least the break room TV will stop going to OAN
Beartracks
(12,809 posts)Ka-Dinh Oy
(11,686 posts)I see a lot of help wanted signs for a lot of types of work. Minimum wage and no benifits but they are jobs. They wanted to not follow the rules and this is their consequences. No one to blame but themselves.
infullview
(981 posts)because they're dumber than a bag of rocks and believe the Earth is flat, the moon landing was a hoax, and dems eat dead babies. Now they can make use of all those social safety net programs us libtards put in place to help those incapable of helping themselves.
ellie
(6,929 posts)Enjoy your penury.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)they are quiting......
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Exactly - this is the correct description
They are failing to meet a job requirement- by choice
hibbing
(10,098 posts)ShazzieB
(16,392 posts)"Nearly 600 UA employees" sounds like a huge number and gives a very different impression than the first sentence of the article. It's almost like the famously conservative Tribune went out of the way to compose the most negatively sensational headline possible.
I don't know if it really was deliberate, but it seems weird to me that the headline makes the situation sound soooo much scarier than it actually is.
riversedge
(70,214 posts)The workers will get one more chance.
Link to tweet
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United Airlines to lay off nearly 600 workers who refused to get vaccinated
https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/aviation/574381-united-airlines-to-lay-off-nearly-600-workers-who-refused-to
By Karl Evers-Hillstrom - 09/28/21 06:53 PM EDT
United Airlines will begin the process of laying off roughly 600 employees less than 1 percent of its workforce who refused to comply with the company's COVID-19 vaccine mandate, it announced Tuesday.
The Chicago-based airline said that 99 percent of its workforce provided proof of vaccination prior to a Monday deadline. United will move to fire those who did not seek an exemption or provide proof of vaccination, but the carrier will give them one more chance to comply with the mandate during the separation process.
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The percentage of vaccinated United employees excludes the less than 3 percent of the companys 67,000 employees who sought a religious or medical exemption. Six United employees filed a lawsuit against the airline last week over its policy to put exempt employees on unpaid leave..............................
..................United is the only one of the top four U.S. airlines to fire employees who do not comply with a vaccine requirement. Delta Air Lines will enact a $200 monthly surcharge on unvaccinated employees, while American Airlines and Southwest Airlines are only encouraging employees to get the shot.
mopinko
(70,100 posts)there actually was a time when it was a great paper and the editorials stayed on their own page.
that was a long time ago, tho.
Doodley
(9,088 posts)Walleye
(31,018 posts)riversedge
(70,214 posts)TomSlick
(11,098 posts)No employer can afford stupid employees and there is no known cure for stupid.
soldierant
(6,857 posts)horror stories about cleanliness of the kitchen and the prsonal hygiene and behavior of staff are bad enough without a pamdemic. Release hundreds of unvaccinated people (who all have attitudes) into the job market, and they might go work at a restaurant? Are you kidding me?
I'll brave restaurants outside of a pandemic because I'm smart enough to be nice to people who serve me. But not now. Hell, no.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,959 posts)Not one employee behind the counter w/ a mask.
I think I'll be making my own hoagies at home for a while.
turbinetree
(24,695 posts)so that they could grow up and be dumb shits today.....as a former United employee...I have no fucking sympathy for them....
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)i am not going to be in a steel tube for 2 hours with people who do not get vacced
bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)hay rick
(7,611 posts)Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Make it the friendly and safe skies
yaesu
(8,020 posts)"We do NOT require a Covid Vaccination- in fact we will not even ask you if you are."
this saddens me as I have been getting their pizza for decades but I live in a 99.9% repuke area.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)That statement sure worked for Republicans concerning those air traffic controllers,it can work here too.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)Is it as simple as just declaring you don't "believe" in vaccines because you hear voices in your head from God who tells you the vaccine is devil juice?
Or do you have to belong to a big established church for a long time, and have to submit letters from your pastor, and passages from the Bible to defend your decision?
BTW, either one is is just as ridiculous.
IronLionZion
(45,438 posts)so fewer people want to work as flight attendants.
What a hot mess
CountAllVotes
(20,869 posts)They treat disabled passengers like crap!
The last time I dared to travel I've had to use them to get to SFO and wow, what a freakin' nightmare it was.
Nothing would make me happier to see these freaks go belly up and the sooner the better!
Dukkha
(7,341 posts)They gave them up in a heartbeat for a very trivial reason. Their loss and the airline is better off losing this baggage.