Originally Posted by Bucking Bar

Agreed

The company slow-rolled it and provided incentives for those who wanted the vaccine.

There are a few reasons the company would have to push back hard against this vaccine freedom thing. (1) if the government requires it, the company has to comply (2) pilots used their unvaccinated status to ninja bid away from places they do not want to go (but bid for anyway in hopes of getting bought off) and forcing other pilots to fly those trips (3) the health & safety of their employees.

Frankly, it is my personal opinion that the Delta MEC ended up on exactly the wrong end of this issue. If we had one person die from crime on an overnight there would be outrage. The company does not release these numbers, but at least 6 died from COVID. ALPA has always been about safety, until now.

I am very glad we have the means and methods to treat the new virus. Good to have it in the rear view. It does not need to hold up our PWA.