United Airlines Not Playing Around on Vaccine Mandate

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Absolutely love to see how United is handling this. All other carriers should follow suit.

United Airlines staff who are granted religious exemptions to vaccine mandate will be put on unpaid leave

United will give employees whose request for an exemption is denied will have five weeks to get vaccinated or face termination.

www.cnbc.com

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Would love for a certain carrier to do ANYTHING. Hope is not a strategy.


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[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

Would love for a certain carrier to do ANYTHING. Hope is not a strategy.


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Your carrier will be the absolute last to do anything. Even Dougie is likely to wise up before Gary. Sorry, man, you picked them.

 

[GypsyPilot]

Good for United!

I’m not happy that ALPA is pushing for a no-vaccine requirement where I work. It’s in our contract that we have to have all required vaccines, and more importantly I think it’s just a major waste of time and resources to fight this battle.

Most of our flying is international, and in the not too distant future it’s going to be impossible to operate crews internationally without them being vaccinated. What I fear is that the percentage of anti-vax pilots at this company will create a situation where we are just permanently locked in our rooms on layovers, and I just can’t handle that.

 

[roundout]

Absolutely love to see how United is handling this. All other carriers should follow suit.

United Airlines staff who are granted religious exemptions to vaccine mandate will be put on unpaid leave

United will give employees whose request for an exemption is denied will have five weeks to get vaccinated or face termination.

www.cnbc.com

I'm curious, with your position against mandates, why are you in favor of this mandate? Because it's a company and not the gumint? I'm not judging, I'm genuinely curious.

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

I'm curious, with your position against mandates, why are you in favor of this mandate? Because it's a company and not the gumint? I'm not judging, I'm genuinely curious.

Correct, it’s a decision by a company about their own employees, it’s not a top-down mandate by the all-powerful state.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Absolutely love to see how United is handling this. All other carriers should follow suit.

United Airlines staff who are granted religious exemptions to vaccine mandate will be put on unpaid leave

United will give employees whose request for an exemption is denied will have five weeks to get vaccinated or face termination.

www.cnbc.com

 

[zmiller4]

I like this better than the precedent of charging unvaccinated employees more for health insurance. I know choosing not to get vaccinated is different from a pre-existing condition, but slippery slope and such and such.

Just say “unless you’ve got a valid *medical* reason, you get the vaccine if you want to work for us”. Good on UAL….but I’m not sure my next door neighbor 737 FO agrees.

 

[Bandit_Driver]

I think it should be a personal choice and companies need to stop trying to virtue signal and win customers over.

Mandating anything, especially new, is a very slippery slope to go down.

What next do we mandate the flu vaccine?

 

[SlumTodd_Millionaire]

What next do we mandate the flu vaccine?

Yes, please.

 

[GypsyPilot]

I think it should be a personal choice and companies need to stop trying to virtue signal and win customers over.

Mandating anything, especially new, is a very slippery slope to go down.

What next do we mandate the flu vaccine?

I had to be vaccinated when I went to college 20 years ago, and many companies such as Delta have required it for a long time anyway. If you don’t like it, go work somewhere else.

 

[Hiboglossi]

I think it should be a personal choice and companies need to stop trying to virtue signal and win customers over.

A company that doesn't try to win customers over is certainly an interesting idea.

 

[CFIscare]

A company that doesn't try to win customers over is certainly an interesting idea.

That's a bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

But! But! My rights! I want to fly planes, expose myself to hundreds of people everyday, traveling all across America or the world, stay in hotels every night in different locations, come home to my family and friends after every trip, participate locally in daily routines like school chores, etc. And I demand to do all this without being vaccinated.

 

[GypsyPilot]

But! But! My rights! I want to fly planes, expose myself to hundreds of people everyday, traveling all across America or the world, stay in hotels every night in different locations, come home to my family and friends after every trip, participate locally in daily routines like school chores, etc. And I demand to do all this without being vaccinated.

Without question, the highest levels of potential exposure I encounter are from my co-workers. It’s absolute BS, and I’m tired of it. It’s not fair to me and the people in my social circle that are vulnerable, vaccinated and careful.

 

[tcco94]

Delta's Health Insurance Surcharge Seems to Spark Vaccinations — TheStreet

Two weeks ago, Delta said it would impose a $200 monthly health insurance surcharge on employees who refused to get the vaccine.

apple.news

Saw this today too.

 

[///AMG]

What next do we mandate the flu vaccine?

DoD beat you to this idea years ago.

 

[bLizZuE]

Remember when society was going to collapse because of marriage equality? I think making sure people don’t get sick enough to die from a global pandemic won’t make society collapse either.

“What’s next? You can marry a goat!?”

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Remember when society was going to collapse because of marriage equality? I think making sure people don’t get sick enough to die from a global pandemic won’t make society collapse either.

“What’s next? You can marry a goat!?”

APC meltdown.

Our (internal) forum has gone into read-only mode which means no can log in and post, a move the webmaster usually does when SHTF. I can only assume it went NATO after Biden's speech today.

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

Would be nice if the vaccine was more effective against transmission of the virus. Lots of studies coming out that in the real world, the vaccine isn't terribly effective against transmission, the longer you are from your vaccine date, especially against the Delta variant. It's essentially a preemptive therapeutic at this point.

Just the fact that we're talking about boosters less than a year after the vaccines became public should be setting off some alarm bells.

I'm not anti-vax and was first in line to get my shots, but this is pretty concerning to me. If it turns out that long term these vaccines just prevent serious illness and don't slow the spread as much as we thought, then it doesn't make sense for companies and governments to push the vaccine.

COVID vaccines protect against Delta, but their effectiveness wanes

Massive UK study of COVID-19 cases shows that people who are jabbed have good immunity at first, but quickly become more vulnerable to the fast-spreading Delta variant.

www.nature.com

How do vaccinated people spread Delta? What the science says

Emerging data suggest that Delta could spread more readily than other coronavirus variants among people vaccinated against COVID-19. But key questions remain.

www.nature.com