Fri Oct 8, 2021 – 5:30 pm EDTFri Oct 8, 2021 – 5:52 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Two Republican members of Congress accused the Biden administration Wednesday of using “coercion” to elicit the air travel industry’s compliance in mandating COVID-19 vaccines for its workers.
It is “unacceptable that your administration is using the threat of contractual measures as a coercion to single out American workers in a vital national industry,” House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee ranking member Rep. Sam Graves and aviation subcommittee senior member Rep. Garrett Graves (no relation) wrote in a letter to President Joe Biden, Reuters reported.
“We strongly urge you to rethink this ill-conceived mandate which will result in the termination of employees whose jobs were saved over the last 18 months at enormous taxpayer expense,” the lawmakers continued. “This unilateral mandate and arbitrary deadline [of December 8] will serve only to disrupt airline operations and increase the likelihood of canceled flights.”
Biden declared Thursday that he considers those job terminations an acceptable trade-off:
BIDEN: “When you see headlines and reports of mass firings, and hundreds of people losing their jobs, look at the bigger story…United went from 59%
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