Looks like pilots at Southwest Airlines are sick of the forced vaccination policy that the airline recently implemented in response to pressure from the White House:
Here is a description of the situation based on one pilot’s comments:
Essentially, the union cannot organize or even acknowledge the sickout, because doing so would make it an illegal job action. Years ago, Southwest and its pilots had a rough negotiation, and the union would not even let the pilots internally discuss the possibility of working-to-rule (which would have slowed Southwest to a crawl).
But at the moment the pilots don’t even have to talk to each other about what they’re doing. The anger internally - not just among pilots but other Southwest workers - is enormous. The tough prior negotiations notwithstanding, Southwest has a history of decent labor relations, and workers believe the company should stand up for them against the mandate. Telling pilots in particular to comply or face termination has backfired.
Well…at least that evil pipeline with all those evil jobs has been closed…and Joe did beg OPEC to increase their production, while he ruined our energy independence status that Trump brought us up to.
The Fox story was about natural gas…clean energy that America has in abundance…production in Pennsylvania is up…but three pipelines that could be getting that gas to the people who use it have been canceled…I don’t know who canceled them but the people trying to stay warm in a cold Pennsylvania winter are going to pay.
