If you are one of those #woke, vaccinated libs working at Southwest Airlines, you better be careful. While you might not object to your union targeting its own dues-paying employees on political grounds, allowing that sort of internecine surveillance will inevitably come back to bite you in your fat blue ass.
Yes, I said surveillance.
According to Southwest Airlines employees who wish to be nameless,
…that, despite the Carter verdict, Southwest has continued investigating employees for online statements, including some made in private chat groups. The employees said several workers have been summoned to “fact-finding” meetings over pronouns that the company urges employees to use with transgender coworkers. …
“The union activists, those who hate the conservatives and the Christians, are actively copying, looking for information [in private or personal online communications] that they can use to harm those that they disagree with,” she said.
The Carter verdict refers to the case of flight attendant Charlene Carter whom “Southwest illegally fired in 2017“…” after Carter used Facebook to express religious views on abortion and criticize the flight attendants’ union, a union official reported her posts to Southwest, leading to her dismissal.”
Carter was awarded over 5 million dollars for wrongful termination resulting from protected speech. But it looks like Southwest has doubled down and has strange bedfellows. Their employee unions.
Related: Breaking: Southwest Pilots Win – Vaccine Exemption Requests Have Been Approved
Union employees have a new reason to leave them. They have long been organs of the Marxist left, but now they are abandoning their obligation to represent employee interests if the employer’s political agenda aligns with their own. It means that Flight attendants, pilots, and mechanics are paying dues so that the unions can assist Southwest in its partisan purge.
As noted in the opening, there are plenty of progs in these increasingly unfriendly skies that would say good riddance. But much like the Dems who will defend all speech in the name of protecting free speech, if they don’t step up and up put pressure on their union and then Southwest, they’ll regret it the way many Democrats and Independents regret voting for Biden or Democrats after being misled about Trump in 2020.
The way people are regretting their tolerance for COVID policies, including vaccination, that resulted in far more harm than good.
Much like new government spending, it is difficult to impossible to roll back policies like this if left unchallenged. And I don’t mean the firings; I’m talking about the surveillance and intolerance for any speech outside the approved guardrails.
If you think they’ll stop at Conservatives or Christians, you are a poor student of history or even unionization.
