A United Airlines captain, Sherry Walker has revealed how she was blocked from accessing her account and also prevented from getting a new job because she refused to take the COVID-19 vaccine.
Speaking at the “Defeat the Mandates” rally in Washington, DC, Walker, co-founder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom, said she is considered an “active employee” after being put on unpaid leave for not complying with the airline’s vaccine mandate in November.
“That means that they can call us back with two weeks’ notice at any given time, they can just grab us and pull us back. But because we’re active, we haven’t had a qualified lifestyle change. So Schwab, which owns our 401(k) accounts, refuses to let anyone access them,” Walker told Fox.
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Walker added that employees in similar shoes have been prohibited from finding other jobs because United has cracked down on non-competes.
“In this case, they have said that no, no outside employment. In fact, you must go through ethics and compliance, and it can’t be a company that we could have … a non-compete” with.
But if Walker were to get another job with an airline, she can’t make lateral moves as a captain because the airline industry has a seniority-based system.
“You start over at the bottom. I can’t be a captain at any other airline in this country. I go back from my six-figure salary, back down to starting probationary pay … pulling gear for some captain,” she said.
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Walker, who has been flying since she was 18 and has worked in the industry since 1998, is spearheading the fight against the vaccine mandates among airline employees, including with a legal battle.
Walker said her personal decision to not get the vaccine came down to her faith, but added that if Americans don’t draw the line with vaccines, freedom over personal healthcare choices could be further diminished in the future.
“Now it’s just a shot in the arm,” Walker said, giving a hypothetical of what could happen in a few years if she’s potentially diagnosed with a disease such as breast cancer.
“Five or six years if I get breast cancer, right? And my doctor says Sherry, [there’s cancer], it might take a little while with some radiation, but we’ll get you back,” she said. “Okay, what happens then when my employer says, ‘no, no, we need you flying as fast as possible. Go get a double mastectomy and be back to work in six weeks.’”