Thu Oct 21, 2021 – 7:16 pm EDT
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(LifeSiteNews) – Southwest Airlines reversed its controversial decision to put unvaccinated employees – whose requests for medical or religious exemptions remain undecided – on unpaid leave.
Southwest’s quick about-face demonstrates that resisting unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandates works.
After Southwest pilots filed a lawsuit seeking an injunction against their company’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate earlier this month, Southwest cancelled nearly 2,000 flights, citing “bad weather.” While the airline and pilots’ union were dismissive of the reports of a pilot walkout, reports on Twitter and elsewhere told a different story.
The sudden change in policy toward unvaccinated employees coincides with the release of a third-quarter earnings report today revealing that the carrier lost $75 million due to the massive number of flight cancellations.
The policy change also follows a protest on Monday by hundreds of Southwest employees outside the airline’s headquarters in Dallas demanding that the stringent vaccine mandate be rescinded.
“No medical tyranny should be allowed at Southwest Airlines,” one of the pilot protesters said in a video tweeted by The Post Millennial.
“Our slogan is ‘freedom,’ and yet our executive management is trying to take away our freedom of choice,” he added.
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