{"id":1103351,"date":"2021-12-09T16:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103351"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:58:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T21:58:36","slug":"amtrak-expects-to-temporarily-slash-service-over-biden-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amtrak-expects-to-temporarily-slash-service-over-biden-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Amtrak Expects to Temporarily Slash Service over Biden Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famtrak-expects-to-temporarily-slash-service-over-biden-vaccine-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1103351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Joe-Biden-speaks-Amtrak-50-Anniversary-getty-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Amtrak expects to temporarily cut some service next month as it warns of possible labor shortages due to the Biden administration\u2019s coronavirus vaccine mandate which&nbsp;requires employees of government contractors to be fully jabbed by January 4th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/about.bgov.com\/news\/amtrak-to-cut-2022-service-as-workforce-shrinks-on-shot-refusals\/\">Bloomberg News<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote readability=\"14\">\n<p>As Amtrak prepares to comply with the federal vaccine mandate, it will likely need to temporarily reduce frequency, particularly on its long-distance services, Stephen J. Gardner, president of Amtrak, said in written testimony for a House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee hearing. About 94% of the rail company\u2019s workers have been fully vaccinated as of this week. [\u2026] The problem is most acute on multi-day routes, where crew bases at some intermediate points have relatively lower rates of vaccinated employees.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cAchieving full service levels, while complying with the vaccination requirement and continuing to prioritize the safety of our customers and employees, is our goal,\u201d Gardner testified.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Some Republican lawmakers expressed frustration with the impending labor shortages due to the vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmtrak just got about $60 billion in new funding, but now President Biden\u2019s vaccine mandates are spurring new worker shortages and service cuts, thwarting recovery from historic Amtrak losses last year,\u201d Rep. Sam Graves&nbsp;(R-MO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TransportGOP\/status\/1468999789362794497?s=20\">stated<\/a>. \u201cTaxpayers will be paying more money for less service.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the mandate, Amtrak faces a staffing crunch due to a lack of&nbsp;human resource managers tasked with hiring new employees, according to the company\u2019s Office of Inspector General&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aboutbgov.com\/0Ob\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a>&nbsp;published Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Amtrak hopes to boost its workforce by over 2o% through October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amtrak expects to temporarily cut some service next month as it warns of possible labor shortages due to the Biden administration\u2019s coronavirus vaccine mandate which\u00a0requires employees of government contractors to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1103351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1103351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1103351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1103351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1103351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1103351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}