White House press secretary Jen Psaki hailed a number of commercial airliners for implementing vaccine requirements for airline employees.
“We’re seeing strong movement and early action toward vaccine requirements across industries, and importantly in the airlines industry, United Airlines was notably first to institute a requirement and within 53 days were able to get to over 99% of its death vaccinated,” Psaki said at the top of Monday’s White House briefing. “Over the weekend, we saw JetBlue, Alaska, and American Airlines step up and move forward with their own requirements.”
Psaki claimed that those “actions are notable as they represent a significant share of our country’s air travel.”
“We know these requirements work, and by acting now, these airlines will ensure smooth implementation and create workplaces that are safer from COVID-19,” she said in closing.
Psaki and other top White House officials, including President Joe Biden, have spent the past several months urging companies to take “innovative steps” to increase vaccination rates among the workforce. The president took that a step further in September when he outlined a plan that would require large companies to enact vaccine mandates if they employ 100 workers or more.
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