What are we to make of Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly?
In an interview with ABC News, he said that no employees would be fired over the Flu Manchu vaccine mandate:
During an interview with ABC News Tuesday, Gary Kelly, the CEO of Southwest Airlines, stated that no employees would be fired over the company’s vaccine mandate. However, the airline announced on October 4 that all 56,000 U.S. Southwest employees needed to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 24, or face termination.
Yet the very same day, we hear that Southwest is going to comply with Biden’s (still unissued) order:
Dallas-based Southwest Airlines will ignore a Texas Executive Order prohibiting any entity from imposing Covid-19 vaccine mandates on employees or customers.
Instead, the beleaguered airline will comply with a yet-to-be issued Biden federal mandate which requires that government employees and contractors get vaccinated, according to CEO Gary Kelly in a Tuesday interview with CNBC.
“I’ve never been in favor of corporations imposing that kind of a mandate. I’m not in favor that. Never have been,” Kelly told “Squawk on the Street,” adding “But the executive order from President Biden mandates that all federal employees and then all federal contractors, which covers all the major airlines, have to have a [vaccine] mandate … in place by December the 8th, so we’re working through that.”
How do you reconcile the difference between these two positions? They’re going to enforce the mandate but not fire people who don’t meet the mandate requirements? How? Keeping them on with unpaid leave until they quit?
Kelly still hasn’t come clean about the reasons behind the cancelled flights. He needs to do that, and to clarify Southwest’s positions on imposing vaccine mandates on their employees, at a bare minimum.
In related news, that non-existent mandate is now closer to existing because draft language has finally been submitted.
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Because he’s trying really, really hard to believe that all his employees are going to get vaccinated.
Can we please stop with the nonsense that these is not an EO in force against Southwest? They are a federal contractor by the fact that they have a… CONTRACT… with the federal government to provide discounted airfare to federal employees. As such they are under the direct language of EO 14042, which mandates that they follow the guidelines promulgated by the Safer Federal Workforce Task Force. They in turn did issue a directive on Sep 24, 2021 that mandates a vaccine for federal contractors. Which as a reminder, Southwest (and a number of other large US airlines) is one. It is true that (as of 10/14/21) OSHA has not finalized the more general rule that will apply to companies with 100 or more employees, but that isn’t the rule that Southwest would have to follow anyway.
And no, I don’t support the EO, the mandate, or any of this other nonsense, but if we’re not going to be any more accurate than the lying liars on the left what’s the damn point?
And yes, I do know these are the facts because I work for a federal contractor who’s having to follow the same stupid bullsh!t order and have already lodged a complaint with my management over having to follow this stupid bullsh!t!
Per Jack Posobiec’s podcast, SEC filings apparently say that Kelly’s bonus is 65% dependent on his ‘covid response’, and he already plans to step down in a few months.
He’s just talking jibberish to run out the clock until he can cash out, while at the same time claiming he ‘did everything possible’ to respond to the coof.
Kelly can solve this problem in one minute – just refuse to contract with the Feds as long as the mandate is in place. Have some cojones, Mr. Kelly.
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Kelly is dancing as fast as he can, hoping something saves his butt.
I’d guess that he is trying to see if he can make the airline survive without Federal contracts and bailouts. Plus the, “Nice airline you got there. Shame if something happened to it”, when the FAA shows up. The flight crew know that as healthy, medically screened professionals, they have more to worry about from getting abandoned in the future when something like autoimmune disease crops up than they do from non-existent co-morbidities.
The VAXX has no real benefit for them but definite risk. Kelly better keep dancing.