Wed Dec 15, 2021 – 10:31 am ESTWed Dec 15, 2021 – 10:41 am EST
WASHINGTON (LifeSiteNews) — National railroad transportation company Amtrak announced that it has suspended its employee vaccine mandate until January due to a potential reduction in service.
The company, which is fully owned by the federal government but is legally a for-profit organization, is a favorite of President Joe Biden. It recently received $22 billion in extra funding through an infrastructure bill, despite its ridership being at 70% of pre-lockdown levels.
“Amtrak Chief Executive Bill Flynn said the railroad would allow employees who were not vaccinated to get tested,” Reuters reported. “Currently, fewer than 500 active Amtrak employees are not in compliance.”
Yet, the firing or suspension of those employees was enough to cause concern about a loss of service according to the train company’s recent Congressional testimony.
“We anticipate proactively needing to temporarily reduce some train frequencies across our network in January to avoid staffing related cancellations with our plan to fully restore all frequencies by March,” Amtrak President Stephen Gardner told the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on December 9.
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About 5% of Amtrak’s employees were not vaccinated, according to Gardner’s testimony.
However,
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