The Republicans encouraging employees to rebel against “tyrannical” Southwest Airlines or any other businesses or the White House are in reality helping unleash a workers movement.Įlvia Díaz is an editorial columnist for The Republic and azcentral. Reach her at 60 or Follow her on Twitter, to get more opinions content. Cruz are goading “employees” to rebel against government and big corporations because it’s politically useful.īut workers could – and should – turn against these same Republicans who reject, among other things, increasing the federal minimum wage and supporting free community college tuition for the poor or access to affordable health care. These Republicans have no idea the kind of workers’ power they are helping incite. It’s all about sticking it to the Biden administration and employers requiring workers to vaccine against the virus. Their egging on workers against COVID-19 vaccine mandates has nothing to do with caring about the workers themselves. I don’t buy that for a split second – and you shouldn’t either. The company has apologized to its passengers and employees for the daily cancellations and reduced its capacity by roughly two thirds on Thursday, according to a CNN review of flight data. Some say, we’re experiencing a political realignment with Republicans now turning into champions of the working class and workers (the little guy) specifically.Īre they really? Is the GOP the anti-big business and pro-workers party now? Since when do Republicans care about workers? These are many of the same folks who’ve long sided with employers against unions – against workers. What’s clear – regardless whatever triggered the massive flight cancellation – is that Republicans are now seizing on workers’ power to stick it to big businesses. The union, however, denied the cancellations had anything to do with vaccine mandates. Southwest Airlines pilots’ union did sue the company recently over labor issues, including work rules changes during the health pandemic.
Tellingly, we have no clue what’s going with Southwest Airlines. Andy Biggs also promoted the idea that airline employees were fighting against vaccine mandates. “Suddenly, we’re short on pilots & air traffic controllers.” “Joe Biden’s illegal vaccine mandate at work!” said on Twitter Republican Sen. The conspiracy theorists – aka Republicans – quickly decided that pilots and other airline workers had revolted against the “tyrannical” vaccine mandate.
The public didn’t seem to buy that explanation and began questioning the obvious, why is Southwest the only airline affected? “CANCEL MY FLIGHT Push back against totalitarianism!” wrote on Twitter Merissa Hamilton of Phoenix, egging on the social media frenzy that took off after Southwest Airlines canceled nearly 2,000 flights.Īirline officials initially blamed air traffic control issues and bad weather in Florida for the massive cancellations that continued through Monday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded. We still don’t know what effectively grounded the popular airline carrier over the weekend, but conspiracy theorists already decided it was a workers' revolt against the COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Right now I am at my wits end!! I have been caring for my elderly father throughout the pandemic and who just died last week.Republicans are using the Southwest Airlines’ strange meltdown to gaslight workers to bring down government and big employers.ĭo Republicans realize they’re actually promoting a workers movement? I am over 65 and you expected me to travel during the height of the pandemic? the pandemic was raging through January 2021. Did you think I was going to be able to use these funds during the height of the pandemic. I do not get the logic!! I canceled my flights right after COVID hit the US in Jan of 2020, so my funds just expired in January 2021. There are posts that explain that Travel funds were extended to 2022 but read the details only for funds expiring during a 4 month window March 2020 to June 2020. I just spent the good part of this afternoon on hold to find out what happened to my Travel Funds. USA TODAY 0:00 0:59 Southwest Airlines has resumed its traditional boarding procedures, ditching a pandemic policy of boarding passengers in smaller groups to promote social distancing.
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