{"id":456646,"date":"2021-12-17T08:54:05","date_gmt":"2021-12-17T03:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=456646"},"modified":"2021-12-17T09:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-17T04:12:43","slug":"united-airlines-ceo-defends-covid-vaccine-mandate-at-senate-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-airlines-ceo-defends-covid-vaccine-mandate-at-senate-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"United Airlines CEO defends Covid vaccine mandate at Senate hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby on Wednesday defended a decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers amid criticism from some Republican senators.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We did this for safety. We believe it saved lives,&#8221; Kirby said at a Senate Commerce hearing on aviation issues. &#8220;We don&#8217;t compromise on safety.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticized United&#8217;s vaccine mandate, calling it &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and was &#8220;disregarding the rights of your employees.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz noted American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both have said they do not plan to fire any employee over the vaccine requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Airlines Chief Executive Scott Kirby on Wednesday defended a decision to mandate COVID-19 vaccines for workers amid criticism from some Republican senators. &#8220;We did this for safety. We believe it saved lives,&#8221; Kirby said at a Senate Commerce hearing on aviation issues. &#8220;We don&#8217;t compromise on safety.&#8221; Republican Senator Ted Cruz criticized United&#8217;s vaccine mandate, calling it &#8220;disturbing&#8221; and was &#8220;disregarding the rights of your employees.&#8221; Cruz noted American Airlines and Southwest Airlines both have said they do not plan to fire any employee over the vaccine requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-456646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456646\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}