{"id":1353229,"date":"2022-03-01T17:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1353229"},"modified":"2022-03-01T17:07:43","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T22:07:43","slug":"exclusive-mental-anguish-financial-and-emotional-distress-unvaxed-united-airlines-employees-send-1000s-of-letters-to-board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-mental-anguish-financial-and-emotional-distress-unvaxed-united-airlines-employees-send-1000s-of-letters-to-board-of-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 &#039;Mental Anguish, Financial and Emotional Distress&#039;: Unvaxed United Airlines Employees Send 1,000s of Letters to Board of Directors"},"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\">40<\/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%2Fexclusive-mental-anguish-financial-and-emotional-distress-unvaxed-united-airlines-employees-send-1000s-of-letters-to-board-of-directors%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=1353229&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\/2022\/03\/Man-Leaning-on-Wooden-Table-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">A United Airlines pilot of more than six years and his wife suffered \u201cmental anguish, financial and emotional distress\u201d following the company\u2019s enforcement of its vaccine mandate, and were ruined financially to the point of being unable to afford\u00a0in-vitro fertilization (IVF) after a crushing miscarriage, a letter to the company\u2019s board of directors reads.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News learned exclusively that potentially thousands of unvaccinated United Airlines employees \u2014 including the Orthodox Jewish pilot trying to expand his family \u2014 sent letters to the company\u2019s board of directors last week detailing the struggles they have endured because of the company\u2019s mandate. United Airlines\u2019 coronavirus vaccine mandate differs from other airlines in that employees who received religious or medical exemptions were placed on indefinite unpaid leave and stripped of their medical insurance.<\/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<p>The mandate is currently the subject of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/22\/employees-sue-united-airlines-over-discriminatory-vaccine-mandate-potentially-1000s-face-firing\/\">class-action lawsuit<\/a> representing 2,000 employees who were placed on unpaid leave because of their refusal to get vaccinated. In mid-February,\u00a0the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2022\/02\/18\/federal-appeals-court-united-airlines-vaccine-mandate-coerced-employees-to-violate-religious-convictions\/\">substantial victory<\/a> to the United employees, ruling that the company\u2019s mandate inflicts \u201cirreparable harm\u201d because it\u00a0\u201ccoerce[s] the plaintiffs into violating their religious convictions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026That harm and that harm alone is irreparable and supports a preliminary injunction,\u201d the three-judge panel ruled 2-1, ultimately sending the case back to District Court Judge Mark Pittman for further review.<\/p>\n<p>Co-founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/ae4hf.org\/\">Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom<\/a> and experienced airline Captain Sherry Walker exclusively told Breitbart News that her organization is \u201cextremely happy that the Fifth [Circuit] has recognized the pain and suffering and the irreparable harm\u201d caused to its members because of United\u2019s stringent vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAnd we are patiently awaiting the next step in the process,\u201d Walker said.<\/p>\n<p>Walker and her organization oversaw the campaign to flood the company\u2019s board of directors with thousands of letters in the hopes that unvaccinated employees who obtained religious and medical exemptions could return to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members love their jobs. They cannot wait to get back to work. Our pilots are itching to go flying,\u201d she said. \u201cOur flight attendants can\u2019t wait to get back to serving our customers. I think they all just miss their jobs terribly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Walker speculated that the board of directors \u201cis not quite aware of the dire straits\u201d some unvaccinated employees have been in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, missing house payments for three and four months gets you pretty close to foreclosure and things like that. And so I think that they\u2019re just eager to reach out to any other possible resources to express their desire to return to work and the desperation that we\u2019re all feeling out here,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Orthodox Jewish pilot and his wife are a prime example of how the company\u2019s vaccine mandate has negatively impacted loyal employees. In his letter, which Breitbart News exclusively obtained, he detailed his and his wife\u2019s struggle to expand their family after having to use their savings to stay afloat. (Breitbart News redacted details which could identify the sender.)<\/p>\n<p>His letter, dated Feb. 21, 2022, reads in part:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>As a result of being placed on Unpaid Leave, as well as being financially forced to cancel company provided health insurance, and all other benefits\/privileges revoked; these are some of the impacts on our life: (redacted) and I have been married for 10 years and have been trying to start a family of our own for the entire duration but have faced many challenges with this.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, we were finally able to afford In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF), and had two embryos transferred; unfortunately, the first one turned into an ectopic pregnancy, and the second we lost at the beginning of the second trimester. After rebuilding and recovering from the emotional trauma of those losses, we looked forward to attempting another round this past winter. However, due to the unreasonable accommodation that United announced to us in September, instead of using our savings to do another round of IVF, we were forced to live on the money that we had set aside.<\/p>\n<p>We know time is ticking for us, and each month we wait, is another month we cannot get back with our future children. I am 43 years old, and my wife turns 34 in a few months \u2013 and we do feel the urgency of the situation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The pilot said the \u201cmental anguish, financial and emotional distress has been very tough to weather.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere clearly has been irreparable harm done because of the unreasonable accommodation offered to us,\u201d he concluded. \u201cAs each month passes, my wife\u2019s viable eggs are diminishing, as well as our chances of having children of our own. I plead with you, to allow me and my fellow pilots back to work, at least under the same accommodations that our competitors have offered their pilots.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart News obtained another letter, dated Feb. 23, 2022, from a gate agent, Air Force veteran, and mother of four children, one of whom has Down syndrome. The employee, who has sincerely held religious beliefs, detailed how she was able to lift herself up out of a 16-year abusive marriage and solely support her four children by working various jobs at United Airlines since 2006.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cBy August 2021, I questioned if I would be homeless, if I would have to rely on my 83-year-old mother again. Would my special needs, non-verbal daughter have medical care \u2014 if any of my daughters would have to quit school to work full-time for medical insurance? Would I have to start over another eight years with another airline company to get me to the point I am at now?\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy September, I was self-mutilating. By November I called the veteran\u2019s suicide line three times. By December, I had a breakdown and was on medical for three weeks,\u201d her letter continues.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said the company\u2019s policy of placing unvaccinated employees with exemptions on unpaid leave is \u201cunsubstantiated, discriminatory, and is overall tainting the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She concluded:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>It is now time for the board of directors to stand up to that discrimination, take our company back and lead the way in support of all rights, of ALL workers first. I respectfully request the discrimination stop and I be returned to my original position, as a gate agent, and original awarded scheduled shift immediately. Every decision we make, will be judged in our courts and the day we meet our creator. I pray everyone will make the right decision in the eyes of God.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While her organization waits for the lawsuit to play out in court, Walker said Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom hopes to get legislation passed \u201cto prevent these atrocities later on.\u201d Walker noted that despite the variety of struggles experienced by members of her organization, they have \u201ccome together so closely as a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of people leaning on each other \u2014 we take our uniforms off for this long, and we just become empathetic human beings. It\u2019s not just captains over here and rampers over there. I\u2019ve seen people reach across all departments and help each other,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cI think we\u2019re strong in our faith, in our communities. So it\u2019s really brought the best in people out as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their ongoing case is\u00a0<i>Sambrano v. United Airlines<\/i>, No. 21-11159 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.<\/p>\n<p><em>Katherine Hamilton is a political reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katherineeeeee2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A United Airlines pilot of more than six years and his wife suffered \u201cmental anguish, financial and emotional distress\u201d following the company\u2019s enforcement of its vaccine mandate, and were ruined<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1353229","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\/1353229","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1353229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1353229\/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=1353229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1353229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1353229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}