DeSantis is offering them bonuses to move here. I love it! Send them down! So you find a few examples of cops who are problematic, and then you try to pass this off as the norm for your narrative fueled rants. Send us your first responders. We're good with it.
The large majority of pilots refuse to fly with unvaccinated crew on the plane. Similar to most workplaces where vaccinated employees are not going to put up with unvaccinated plague rats. United Airlines Says Unvaccinated Pilots Costing It Millions https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...e-unvaccinated-pilots-are-costing-it-millions Airline says paid leave costs $1.4 million every two weeks Judge extends order requiring United to pay to Nov. 8 United Airlines Inc.told a federal judge the company is spending millions on paid leave for unvaccinated pilots because their colleagues “refuse to risk their safety” by flying with them. The leave is costing United about $1.4 million every two weeks -- money it’s unlikely to recover even if it wins a lawsuit challenging the airline’s vaccine mandate for all U.S. employees, United argued in a filing on Friday in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas. U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman was unmoved. On Monday, he extended until Nov. 8 a temporary restraining order he imposed earlier this month barring the airline from placing unvaccinated workers with a religious or medical objection to its mandate on unpaid leave. Pittman, an appointee of former President Donald Trump, said the TRO will maintain the status quo while he decides whether to block United’s vaccine mandate for the remainder of the litigation, as plaintiffs have requested. Without a restraining order in place, hundreds of workers might be “compelled to take a vaccination in violation of their religious beliefs or medical restrictions” or face “being placed on indefinite unpaid leave,” Pittman wrote. The plaintiffs had argued over the weekend that vaccinated pilots should “not know whether they are flying with an unvaccinated pilot” and that “United should be informing its pilots -- as they do the general public -- that the risk of contracting Covid-19 on a United airplane is almost zero.” United argues the order is unwarranted because pilots who sued would get “money damages and retroactive seniority if they ultimately prevail on the merits.” While the cost cited in the filing is relatively small for a company of United’s size, the airline industry is still struggling with the aftermath of the pandemic that devastated its business in 2020. The company announced a loss of more than $7 billion last year as air traffic nearly ground to a halt. The case is Sambrano v. United Airlines Inc., 21-cv-01074, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas (Fort Worth).
Judge rules Southwest can order pilots to be vaccinated against COVID-19 https://thehill.com/policy/healthca...rder-pilots-to-be-vaccinated-against-covid-19
Yep... vaccine mandates work... Covid vaccine mandate led to 96 percent of Tyson workers getting the shot, company says The company based in Springdale, Arkansas, said the number of its 120,000 workers who have been vaccinated has nearly doubled since it announced its mandate on Aug. 3. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...nt-tyson-workers-getting-shot-compan-rcna3889 OMAHA, Neb. — Meatpacking giant Tyson Foods says more than 96 percent of its workers have been vaccinated ahead of the company’s Nov. 1 deadline for them to do so. The company based in Springdale, Arkansas, said the number of its 120,000 workers who have been vaccinated has nearly doubled since it announced its mandate on Aug. 3. At that point, only 50 percent of Tyson workers had been vaccinated. “This is an incredible result — not only for our company, but for your families and our communities across the country, ” Tyson President and CEO Donnie King said in a note to employees Tuesday. (More at above url)
Gotta protect the meat supply for Americans as those workers are critical to the meat processing industry. I remember last year when they temporarily shut down because there were Covid breakouts at their plants. Many Americans were pssst that Tyson didn't better protect their workers after the disruption to the meat supply. wrbtrader
Sadly the Covid toll among meatpackers in 2020 was recently found to be three times greater than originally estimated. Covid cases and deaths grossly underestimated among meatpackers, House investigation finds The coronavirus infected 59,000 workers at the country’s top meatpacking companies and killed more than 250, lawmakers found https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/27/meatpacking-house-report/ More workers at the country’s top five meatpacking companies were sickened and died of the coronavirus than had been previously estimated, an investigation by the House select subcommittee on the coronavirus crisis has found. At least 59,000 workers at Tyson Foods, Smithfield Foods, JBS, Cargill and National Beef — companies that control the lion’s share of the U.S. meat market — were infected with the coronavirus during the pandemic’s first year, according to a report the subcommittee released Wednesday on its findings. At least 269 workers across these companies died of covid-19 between March 1, 2020, and Feb. 1. The report, which stems from an investigation the subcommittee launched in February, alleges that the country’s top meatpackers failed to protect workers, allowing the virus to spread quickly in the close quarters of processing and packing plants. Workers were pushed to show up while ill, The Washington Post has reported, turning many facilities into covid hot spots. Dozens of plants were forced to close during the pandemic’s first wave, throttling production and sending ripples across the supply chain. “Instead of addressing the clear indications that workers were contracting the coronavirus at alarming rates due to conditions in meatpacking facilities, meatpacking companies prioritized profits and production over worker safety,” lawmakers said in the report. More than half of the total infections — nearly 29,500 — were tied to Tyson Foods. In an email, the company told The Post it had invested more than $810 million since the beginning of the pandemic to transform its facilities and make workers safer. The Arkansas-based company has been a leader in vaccinations; in August, it became the first major food company to enact a vaccination mandate for its 120,000 U.S. workers. “The COVID-19 pandemic has been an unprecedented and unpredictable global public health crisis, and we will continue to evolve our response, following CDC guidance, to protect our team members, their families and our communities,” Tyson said in a statement, referring to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ninety-six percent of Tyson’s team members were vaccinated as of Tuesday, chief executive Donnie King told employees in a note. JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, told The Post in an email that it has invested more $760 million in employee health and safety in the pandemic. The company said it has “adopted hundreds of safety measures that often outpaced federal guidance and industry standards,” including requiring masks for all workers and covering worker health care costs. An estimated 334,000 coronavirus cases nationwide have been tied to meatpacking plants, resulting in more than $11 billion in economic damage, according to research from the University of California at Davis. Researchers found that per capita infection rates in counties that were home to beef- and pork-processing facilities were twice as high. Chicken-processing facilities raised transmissions by 20 percent. Smithfield Foods told The Post it had implemented more than 90 percent of health and safety recommendations before public health officials released guidance for the meatpacking industry. “We continue [to] enhance and implement worker safety protocols to this day, evolving as understanding of and defense against the virus have grown,” Smithfield’s vice president of corporate affairs, Jim Monroe, said in a statement emailed to The Post. In a statement, Cargill said employee safety was its top priority but acknowledged the “tragic impacts” on its workers and the communities where the company operates. Still, “We have operated in a manner that meets or exceeds the federal government’s health and safety standards issued for meat processors and have hosted several governmental agencies for tours of our protein facilities,” Cargill said in the statement emailed to The Post. “The feedback from these visits has been overwhelmingly supportive of our approach.” National Beef did not immediately respond to request for comment. Estimates from the Food and Environment Reporting Network, which had been widely used by media outlets and lawmakers to track the crisis, had pegged infections at under 30,000 earlier this year. The investigative nonprofit’s tracking efforts drew on publicly available data and news reports to track the coronavirus’s impact on meat plants across the United States. The House select subcommittee investigation involved data on deaths and infections from meatpacking companies, as well as a review of more than 150,000 pages of documents, including worker complaints, local health department inquiries, internal communications from executives and more. Internal documents from Smithfield revealed that executives pushed back “vigorously” against federal and state recommendations for coronavirus precautions, the subcommittee investigation found. And as the virus’s first wave raged, executives at several companies continued to insist that work was “safe.” “The full extent of coronavirus infections and deaths at these meatpacking companies was likely much worse than these figures suggest,” lawmakers cautioned, because data from companies often excluded cases confirmed by off-site testing and self-reported cases. Lax regulatory efforts also played a role in the crisis, lawmakers learned. Under the Trump administration’s leadership, the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration — the chief agency charged with protecting the safety of American workers — made a “political decision” not to issue an enforceable regulatory standard that would have forced meatpackers to step up safety, lawmakers found. The agency issued just nine citations to three meatpacking companies with severe outbreaks in 2020 and scaled back inspections by 35 percent, according to the report. “Without being held to any specific standard, meatpacking companies were left with largely unchecked discretion to determine how to respond to the coronavirus pandemic, to the detriment of meatpacking workers,” the report states.
Federal agency draws a line between religious, political vaccine mandate exemptions https://www.audacy.com/kywnewsradio...-guidance-religious-vaccine-mandate-exemption The federal agency that enforces anti-workplace discrimination laws has new guidance about COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) updated its guidelines to clarify to employers about vaccine mandates and religious exemptions. The new rules separate religious beliefs from political ones. The EEOC says an employee with a sincere religious belief can be excused from a company’s mandatory COVID-19 policy, but employees do not qualify to be excused on the basis of their social, political or economic views. “While it may be relevant to sincerity, an individual’s beliefs or degree of adherence to them can change over time,” said KYW Newsradio legal correspondent Amy E. Feldman. “So an employee’s newly adopted or inconsistently observed practices may still be considered a sincerely held belief. So it is still a bit of a minefield, to be honest.” However, Feldman said even if an employer grants an employee a vaccine exemption based on religion, it doesn’t mean the employer is obligated to accommodate their needs further. “Because the guidance did say that courts have found Title VII’s undue hardship on the employer would happen where religious accommodation would impair workplace safety or diminish efficiency in other jobs or cause coworkers to carry the accommodated employee’s share of burdensome work,” she explained. “So that means even if you accept that this person has a valid religious reason not to get one, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have to put them back where they were before.” The EEOC says state or local laws could conflict with its guidelines, and if they do, it would need to be worked out through negotiations.