UA Requiring All US Employees to Vaccinate - now by 27 Sept 2021
Aug 12, 2021, 9:34 am
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And one of the most dangerous places you can be is on the plane after boarding but before those medical grade HEPA filter, touching shoulders with a pre-symptomatic or asymptomatic COVID positive person who decides to chat with you while drinking coffee without a mask on. Or seated anywhere near that person.
Aug 12, 2021, 9:39 am
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United Airlines says the risk of COVID-19 exposure onboard its aircraft is "virtually non-existent" after a new study finds that when masks are worn there is only a 0.003% chance particles from a passenger can enter the passenger's breathing space who is sitting beside them.
Aug 12, 2021, 9:44 am
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As this tread is about the UA employee vaccination requirement and not passengers (or their use of masks), please let's focus here on the employee requirement discussion.
Use the existing, UA COVID19 precautions: **REQUIRING** mask usage per CDC/DoT for passenger on-plane / mask usage discussions.
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Use the existing, UA COVID19 precautions: **REQUIRING** mask usage per CDC/DoT for passenger on-plane / mask usage discussions.
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Aug 12, 2021, 9:53 am
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The unions are for it as most union members are vaccinated. They aren't going to take the side of a small minority. UA employees overwhelmingly want to be vaccinated. It isn't a good look - even for a union - to go against the majority.
Aug 12, 2021, 10:00 am
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Aug 12, 2021, 12:29 pm
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Aug 12, 2021, 12:33 pm
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I think the support and guidance they are offering are to the vast, vast majority of their members who would like to 1) get the industry back to normal
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Aug 12, 2021, 6:27 pm
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Is United also requiring this of employees who staff the "United Express" flights, i.e., Republic Air, Air Wisconsin, etc.? Sorry if I have forgotten who currently has the United Express contracts...
Aug 12, 2021, 6:44 pm
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https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/08/06/...employees.html
The mandate does not apply to regional airlines that fly shorter routes for United.
Aug 12, 2021, 6:59 pm
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(This may be OT for this thread but are crews for an airline like SkyWest or Republic segregated, as in a YX FA is "Only a Republic-for-United FA" or a "Only a Republic-for-American FA" or mobile (as in one trip could be an AA trip and the next a UA trip)? If that latter a UA requirement for regionals could become a defacto mandate for all of that subcontractor's employees to be vaccinated and an additional wrinkle that UA is probably glad not to deal with at least at this point) .
Aug 12, 2021, 7:23 pm
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I’ll be more vigilant than normal booking mainline routings where possible v RJs. No different than any other time
Aug 12, 2021, 8:51 pm
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That's a bit disappointing but not surprising given the logistical and contractual challenges that flowing down that mandate would have absent some framework in place for it in the existing contract
(This may be OT for this thread but are crews for an airline like SkyWest or Republic segregated, as in a YX FA is "Only a Republic-for-United FA" or a "Only a Republic-for-American FA" or mobile (as in one trip could be an AA trip and the next a UA trip)? If that latter a UA requirement for regionals could become a defacto mandate for all of that subcontractor's employees to be vaccinated and an additional wrinkle that UA is probably glad not to deal with at least at this point) .
(This may be OT for this thread but are crews for an airline like SkyWest or Republic segregated, as in a YX FA is "Only a Republic-for-United FA" or a "Only a Republic-for-American FA" or mobile (as in one trip could be an AA trip and the next a UA trip)? If that latter a UA requirement for regionals could become a defacto mandate for all of that subcontractor's employees to be vaccinated and an additional wrinkle that UA is probably glad not to deal with at least at this point) .
Aug 13, 2021, 7:41 am
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