We Shall Fight in the Air: Southwest Airlines Employees Protest Vax Mandates

[Bill]

https://www.cbsnews.com/video/southw...-1800-flights/

https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/...pilot/comments

URGENT: A Southwest Airlines pilot explains why you will not hear anything about vaccine mandates from his union - and why Southwest has more flexibility than it admits to stand up to the White House
Alex Berenson
1 hr ago
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The pilot emailed following the first Southwest post today (and provided his SWA ID to prove his identity). He asked that I paraphrase the email.

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.

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Meanwhile, Southwest has more flexibility than it has acknowledged. Federal contracts represent about 3 percent of its revenue, but even the Biden administration CANNOT alter existing contracts (please note, I have not checked this, though it seems reasonable); Southwest is only at risk of losing future contracts.

This pilot believes that the fact that the airlines received $25 billion in no-strings-attached cash for “payroll support” last year (as well another $25 billion in loans) has made them particularly reluctant to stand up to the Biden administration. Southwest’s CEO, Gary Kelly, may be in an especially tough spot since he is the head of the airline lobbying group.

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Finally: This pilot says he loves Southwest and finds the crisis painful but feels that if this is the only way Americans can stand up to these mandates, then let the chips fall.

[Mitchell Gant]

I think this is just the beginning.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breakin...ccine-mandate/

[JRD77VET]

One thing nobody is talking about is the highly trained military pilots that are refusing the jab and resigning.

Let's Go Brandon

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Mitchell Gant

I think this is just the beginning.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breakin...ccine-mandate/

Originally Posted by JRD77VET

One thing nobody is talking about is the highly trained military pilots that are refusing the jab and resigning.

Let's Go Brandon

Who is John Galt?

[Mitchell Gant]

29% of Southwest flights cancelled today:

https://flightaware.com/live/cancelled/

[Steve_R]

Originally Posted by Mitchell Gant

I think this is just the beginning.

https://citizenfreepress.com/breakin...ccine-mandate/

Article says all flights into and out of FL were canceled. That’s a flat-out lie. Southwest flights everywhere were affected while flights into and out of FL on other airlines were close to business as usual. Southwest is lying and the media is complicit in going along with and reporting the lies.

[Bill]

[Mitchell Gant]

The first twatter link in this article takes you to "Libs of TikTok" lol. But there are some good videos of what SWA customers are seeing.

https://beckernews.com/chaos-nationw...over-up-42471/

[ratflinger]

Good - it's time to bring doom

[Bill]

https://odysee.com/SWAirBrandon:3

Edit:

Hey @Jeff '79! Hey @Lakota!

Have you watched your local news? Have you seen how this is being 'reported?' They're saying it's because of bad weather and air traffic control problems. Have you actually SEEN any bad weather? Asked yourselves why ATC problems ONLY seem to be effecting Southwest flights? Only SW flights are running into non existent weather issues? Air traffic controllers are only refusing to guide Southwest planes? Really?

This is a work slowdown/stoppage because SW employees, especially pilots, are protesting the vaccine mandates. But your news isn't reporting that. They're radio silent on that.

Can't you see you're being lied to and gaslit? If you're being lied to, to your faces about this, what else are you being lied to about?

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by bill_daniels

Who is John Galt?

[Dan Dlabay]

I hope all these woke companies that are bowing down to that idiot Biden pay dearly for their leftest ways.

[Bill]

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Dan Dlabay

I hope all these woke companies that are bowing down to that idiot Biden pay dearly for their leftest ways.

Sadly, too many sheep are blindly following the herd.

I'd love to see huge companies like this go broke and place the blame squarely on Brandon's shoulders.

Let's Go Brandon!

[69camfrk]

Originally Posted by JRD77VET

One thing nobody is talking about is the highly trained military pilots that are refusing the jab and resigning.

Let's Go Brandon

I had dinner with one last Friday night. Our .gov is totally out of control.

[DJ_Critterus]

NY is about to **** themselves. A lot of medical workers are about to quit/get fired and the governor wants to back fill them with members of the Nasty Guard. Well, wait a minute... aren't most of them working civilian jobs? Hmm.... who's going to take care of those jobs?

Truth is, the libs don't care as long as government controls everything.

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

NY is about to **** themselves. A lot of medical workers are about to quit/get fired and the governor wants to back fill them with members of the Nasty Guard. Well, wait a minute... aren't most of them working civilian jobs? Hmm.... who's going to take care of those jobs?

Truth is, the libs don't care as long as government controls everything.

Yep.

On a podcast I was listening to yesterday, they were saying that these NG nurses and doctors were working medical jobs now elsewhere.

So if Hochul (HOE-kull) yanks them to come to NYS to work they will have to leave the medical jobs they are doing now.

So who will fill in their existing jobs? What a political cluster****.

Where we're headed: "See, the free market cannot handle health care. Everything is a mess. We will have to completely take it over."

[Mitchell Gant]

Go Alaska Airlines

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1448456332798013442

[Aerovette]

I heard that Amtrak has joined Southwest and American Airlines too. Not sure what to believe anymore though.

[snide]

Originally Posted by aerovette

I heard that Amtrak has joined Southwest and American Airlines too. Not sure what to believe anymore though.

Add Alaska Airlines to the list.

Enough is enough.