IBM and airlines won’t comply with Texas governor’s ban on vaccine mandates

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/airlines-reject-texas-ban-on-vaccine-mandates-say-biden-order-takes-precedence/

by rbanffy • 5 years ago

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throwawayfear• 5 years ago

Why would they? They are interested in reminding the workers who the boss is, who fires who for any reason, and who tells you what to put into your body if you want to put bread on your table.

The shareholders should fire every single person who is pushing these policies, if they want to retain their best talent. Why are flight attendants being treated like pets or animals while some fat cat boss on an island somewhere sips on expensive wine and laughs?

meepmorp• 5 years ago

Is this satire?

suvo2• 5 years ago

Nope. Shit just got real. Welcome to the turd '20s.

suvo2• 5 years ago

help_quanted• 5 years ago

If by best talent you mean anti-vaxxers that lack critical thinking skills, then sure.

Latty5• 5 years ago

An employer that allows some employees to endanger others is negligent, most importantly in terms of ethics, but also in terms of productivity.

Your right to swing your fist ends at my face. If you want to work with people, you have to take reasonable measures not to harm them.

An employer that is willing to tell me to come in to work with people who refuse to get vaccinated is one that doesn't care about my well-being, and one I don't want to work for.

asguy9• 5 years ago

If the vaccine and masks work, why do people who have taken it and wear them, need to worry?

What is this narrative we’re pushing today? You’re acting like by not taking the vaccine, they’re directly violating people who did take it. How do you square that circle?

P.S. I’m vaccinated. I’m also not worried about being around people who aren’t.

jinpa_zangpo• 5 years ago

1. Vaccine mandates ignore the science by not recognizing people with naturally acquired immunity to Covid.

2. They ignore the science by not recognizing that the vaccinated also transmit Covid.

3. They are unjust because they do not recognize some people declined the second Covid shot after a bad reaction to the first and are therefore considered unvaccinated.

csense• 5 years ago

Governor could probably play hardball if he wants. Start fining them, seize their Texas real estate if they don't pay up.

Alternatively, order them to stop operating in Texas. If an airline breaks ranks, they'll enjoy a monopoly in the state and will be able to comfortably triple its ticket prices with no competition. Meanwhile the others will bleed like mad, scrambling to get their planes out and move their HQ.

proc0• 5 years ago

Then why should other companies comply with mandates then? Isn't that the exact same line of thinking? People have clearly recovered, and are not forced to work if they don't want to. If they feel the job is unsafe, you can quit and find another one.

IBM and airlines won’t comply with Texas governor’s ban on vaccine mandates

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