Newport News shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls reverses their position on the vaccine mandate and claims they misinterpreted the federal requirement. After further consultations with the federal government, the shipbuilder now says the vaccine mandate doesn’t apply. “This recent information is different from what we understood to be the government’s and the Navy’s intent,” the company said.
Huntington Ingalls previously said all of its 25,000 workers would need to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 as a “condition of continued employment” due to the vaccine mandate for federal workers and contractors. [Media Link] However, Newport News Shipbuilding President Jennifer Boykin said in a Facebook update Thursday that Huntington Ingalls clarified their Navy contracts “don’t include a vaccine mandate at this time.”
[Via Facebook] President and CEO Mike Petters issued a message to employees Nov. 16 indicating that the government’s Jan. 4, 2022, deadline for vaccination is suspended. The message also clarified that after considerable work with the Navy to meet the intent of the mandate, our Navy contracts with Newport News Shipbuilding do not include a vaccine mandate requirement at this time.
HELL yes!!!! As we have heard before…”Winning”! 🙂
The same people who figured out that the vax does not make sense are the same ones that can figure out how to build a ship. Imagine that!
Expect angry Brandon outbursts when his failing vax policy is questioned. I could be humored with another “Lying dog faced pony soldier”.
Mandates crumbling all over but still Biden’s trying to get the courts to go along with his jab … it’s all coming undone.
FJB … take your jab and shove it.
Great update on the song by Johnny Paycheck..
I am certain he would concur.
Sounds like they were going to lose a lot of skilled workers. Ship building would slow and then the government would be fining them. Hard to find skilled workers these days.
Good luck in getting those the were forced into early retirement. Just Saying
They’ll come back after the Democrats loose control in Washington.
Betcha’ a few skilled workers at The Treehouse could become available for the right situation… 😉
Pilots, autoworkers, and now shipbuilders have all successfully managed to reverse their mandate requirements (at least for now).
These are all high-skill, labor intensive jobs that require lengthy training in critical job sectors.
Not very easy to replace such people, and therefore it’s not as easy to boss them around.
Keeler, you would think the same could be said about nurses, but Kaiser is laying off thousands of anti-vaxxers, last I heard.
Nurses are already an overexploited class, hospitals may just figure on overloading those who remain even more, letting the patients suffer further degraded care, and blaming it all on opposition to the vax – while the money machine continues cranking.
Despite official PR lip service, the hospital interests have never been about the interests of the workers or patients.
Remember, these are the same hospitals that withhold FLCCC and other safe effective covid treatment protocols, multiplying suffering and death to increase profits.
The plandemic has revealed many evils.
That’s because they think they will just call on travelers, agency and Philipinos when needed but they are needed in their own country, they forget this is global.
No need to replace when your aim is to crash the economy.
Don’t forget about the nurses. That is a job not many people can or want to do. We now have China Joe on the run. By the way, once it is proven the election was stolen, everything he has signed into law is null and void.
Don’t forget the first group that said, “NO”, the US Postal Service. Who would have thought a US Government organization would start the dominoes falling?
I can see the Ivy indoctrinated woke executives now running many airlines putting Muslims in the cockpits of commercial US aircraft to replace ‘difficult’ pilots. ‘We must not discriminate against our Islamic brethren’, they parrot. ‘What 9/11 – we don’t need no stinking 9/11’.
Yes, as one of them, I hold a contrarian view. This isn’t a win. The Communists have indentified two important parameters.
These are classic Communist tactics and we’ve seen numerous examples of them over the decades and if memories are fuzzy and faded, examine the last five years.
There will not be a win until the Communists are defeated and dead in the ground. Permanently. Wars aren’t won by rolling over when an enemy concedes ground. Push forward, attack and destroy.
However, a significant portion of America places money above freedom and liberty so hence such a viewpoint is contrarian to the mainstream and such people are shunned and shouted down. Good. Americans will get what they deserve for their greed and avarice. I’m done giving a fck about them.
I wouldn’t work for one of those Communist cockbags if my life depended on it. I wouldn’t be sad when one is killed. They don’t give a fck about human life, only power and money. Nothing new.
I didn’t say it was a win. But you have very good points that I hadn’t thought about.
Hope this happens with truckers soon.
God Bless all our delivery truck drivers. I can’t imagine what they are suffering what with the price of fuel and parts. Price a truck tire, if you can find one. When a trucker fills the tanks it costs hundreds and hundreds of dollars. God Bless all delivery truck drivers.
Yep, my trucker cousin told me her last fill-up was over $800. And she won’t take the jab if it’s mandated.
One of my workers son works for Fed Ex ground services and they had told upper management in a fairly large region that they would walk if required to get it. Crickets!!!
We are winning!
I read yesterday from the MSM that only 17% of the vexed have gotten a booster. Many of my vexed friends are saying the same thing, that they aren’t doing any more shots. Winning!
Hopefully, we will have treatments for the vexed to recover most or all of their living years. We all have many family and friends who got it, who wouldn’t take our advice etc.
Happy thanksgiving all!
Yes, I got the vax. Won’t get the boost. My 89 year old mother in law may get the booster.
Vexed; interesting term for vaccinated folks.
If you don’t have bodily autonomy — the ability to say NO to government mandated coercive medical procedures — you have nothing.
This is the hill to die on, so to speak.
It remains an EXPERIMENTAL “vaccine.”
No drug company liability. Emergency authorization only. This is a game of chicken. The emperor has no clothes. The clot shot kills. Heart inflammation and blood clots. The average American stands a 99.9% chance of surviving the virus. Congress is exempt from mandates. ALL drug company employees are exempt. Postal workers are exempt.
Say NO!
Say FJB.
Actually it’s not even a vaccine. It’s experimental gene therapy which will come back to bite nearly everyone, in some way or another, who has taken the injections.
And all illegal invaders are exempt.
Those are thee replacement slaves when all the VAXED people start dying off.
I bet this *new understanding* of the policy will do ABSOLUTE WONDERS for Brandon’s chances in the pending lawsuits…
Indeed. Thanks for all you do.
More people need to stand up. It’s not enough until every person has the right to make their own medical decisions without coercion and threats. I work in the healthcare industry in a blue state and I spend every other week trying to figure out what I have to do next in order to maintain my bodily autonomy. I won’t give in but Brandon and his blue henchmen need to give up.
21 USC and 10 USC already say this, especially with regard to “EUA.” They protect your right to say yes AND your right to say no, and that no one may coerce, punish, nor threaten you.
Should prove to everyone, that the much needed experimental injection mandates, aren’t so needed after all.
Nothing like a nuclear reactor or submarine missing a few pieces.
Let’s keep it up. I’ll be let go come Jan 4th and I’m already interviewing. I don’t think I’d stay after what my company did. Denied all religious accommodation requests if individual needs to come on site. Called it an undue hardship to avoid legal issues. Religious accommodation for work from home employees only goes to April 1st, at that time it’s the vax or you’re out. I hope my company loses a lot of people and suffers because of this heavy handed decision.
If your company is a candidate for boycotting by the public, I’d appreciate the name, if you feel comfortable sharing. I have an ever expanding list of companies that are strongly pro-vax & anti-first and anti-second amendments that I no longer do business with and am determined to avoid even casual contact between my monies and any business that doesn’t respect my beliefs. Thanks!
Add actively pro-CRT companies to your list. I may even boycott the woke Salvation Army this year.
I will be avoiding any assistance to the “ Sally Ann” as kids we used to follow “ the soldiers” into bars in Scotland where they hit up drunks for “donations.”
Great memories..we always thought they were a decent group. Sadly not.
Oh well!
Southern Company which is a large energy provider is not requiring vac. Great company to work for.
I have a list going as well, would love to know who is on yours. Sure would be nice to have a pinned thread on this here at CTS where we can add as we learn. Really needed.
I’ve de-Amazoned, and feel good about that.
I won’t hold my breath but let’s hope the numb skulls everywhere else that ruined a lot of people lives reverse course. I don’t believe the hospitals will be the first because they’re making big $$$$$ on this covid scam. The hospital administrators have blood on their hands and I doubt they’ll want to admit that any time soon…if at all. They should be tried and punished though when the truth finally makes it’s way into the main stream.
https://arizonadailyindependent.com/2021/11/21/bidens-bounty-on-your-life-hospitals-incentive-payments-for-covid-19/
I’ve heard the incentive payment for hospitals is $40K per ventilator, and everyone goes on a ventilator in the hospitals that have no approved therapies in their policies.
If you have oxygen and IV vitamin C with the other supplements and the FLCCC drugs, you simply don’t need the hospital even at the onset of severe Covid, just one good nurse. Been there, done that.
Once the hospital gets you, you’ve lost control and they are destroying you with things like remdisivir with irreversible damage.
Hospital businesses: from heroes to zeroes.
That point can’t be overstated. The hospitals all jumped at the easy money.
Any admission that their policies were unnecessary at this point will lay bare their greed and indifference to the actual health of their patients.
They are in DEEP, so there will be no backing down for them.
Sounds like Huntington Ingalls did exactly what the federal Government was mandating. Ingalls then provided a request for additional costs and time to the government for the changed conditions of their contract as dictated by the government. It was probably a very substantial cost and would include massive time extensions with associated costs on current contracts. The change request for changed contract conditions would also include the cost and time delay impacts on all sub tier contractors and suppliers.
The additional costs submitted by Ingalls probably did not sway the Navy, but there were probably some substantial time delays to critical defense department projects that impact national security.
A nation without effective borders has no “national” security. Under these circumstances there is no purpose to a navy or any other branch of the military. Our enemies can simply walk in, get sent to their assigned location for operations on the taxpayer dollar, and maybe get almost a half million dollar stipend from China Joe.
And yet the CEO (through his spokesperson) lied about the reason for the reversal.
Allegedly, the company misunderstood the government’s and the Navy’s intent wrt the mandate.
That is laughable on its face. All large defense companies have teams of lawyers that discover/exploit even a pinhole of ambiguity in a contract so as to widen that pinhole into a virtual superhighway allowing addition armored car loads of cash to flow into the company coffers via change orders.
These would be the same really sharp, eagle-eyed lawyers who, somehow, didn’t understand the intent of Joey B’s vax mandate. The government’s and the Navy;s “intent” wrt the mandate could not have been more clear. There was zero room for misunderstanding.
All of which supports the scenario you outlined above.
It’s bad enough that this administration routinely prevaricates.
It is worse yet thst the CEO of a major corporation goes out and lies to maintain the narrative.
The individuals who actually build the ships are no doubt laughing their collective rear ended off about the CEO’s pathetic statement.
I am so happy to see relief coming the way for those in private industry who have resisted the vax mandate.
However, federal employees are still at such risk and stress. I wish some of those federal court cases would come through for them soon.
Well Congress,the postal workers,etc are not stressing, and I could give a flip less about any of them. “However, federal employees are still at such risk and stress. I wish some of those federal court cases would come through for them soon.”
It’s a lot more than you think. Any employee of a federal contractor serving the military falls under the same rules as the military.
Since most of the people working in combat zones these days are contractors, that is a LOT of people!
“Options to nullify resignations” explains exactly why they had to change the tyrannical policy. Those people who got the shot to “protect their loved ones” had better wake up and realize that it is really these people who are protecting all of us by their refusal to surrender their individual liberty.
Isn’t there a line missing in the “what’s changing” list?
Where is the line about how all those who already caved for this can get the clot shot removed?
Or be compensated when adverse effects arise.
The phrases “irreparable harm” and “grave statutory and constitutional concerns” were used by the Court when the 5th Circuit upheld the stay stopping the OSHA directive. I have no doubt that every single legal team working for a large company that had mandated the shot looked very closely at that. That is the reason for the reversals and backing down that we are seeing. They don’t want to be sued … and lose.
I hope that’s the case. I think many heads of companies and universities imagined that immunity was blanket but, as Dr. Robert Malone has stated, that’s not so.
People need to cowboy up and say no. I keep telling people if you are willing to cave, you can cave in 6 months at least wait it out as long as possible.
I have no sympathy for people who won’t even hold out a little longer. Everyone of us that says no is holding the line for everybody’s freedom worldwide. This is not an exaggeration. If they win this they will control every human being on the planet via vaxx passports and digital currency. It sucks that so many lined up and screwed the rest of us, but this is about our kids future now.
YAY!!
Yeah, we “misinterpreted” the fake and illegal requirements. HII should have said “stuff it” from Day 1.
At Thanksgiving dinner, some slimeball (probably Hunter) will remind Sleepy Joe that China can build our ships and already has done so. All they have to do is drag them out of their desert missile range. 10% of the savings is kicked back to the Big Guy and he can still fire those unjabbed US shipwrights.
No vaccines in Heaven! Make on earth as it is in Heaven oh Lord.
I wonder how the millions of people will react when the long term affects of the dangerous jab is finally revealed? How do Big Harma, government health agencies, hospitals, doctors and the scientific community at large explain away the murder and maiming huge swaths of the population when readily available inexpensive therapeutics were available?
This Covid scam is the MOG – Mother Of Gaslighting Let the blowback be gigantic.
How will they react? Denial, misdirection, and disinformation.
They will pretend not to notice, and when pressed, will blame something else.
How could they possibly get away with this? Because the media and big tech will back the cover story, and people have been conditioned to simply swallow the line.
Just wait. 40% could die off, and many will simply believe the media when they say there’s no connection. “debunked”, as they like to say.
And FJB will claim diminished capacity, Fauci and Hunter will move to China, Pelosi will pass away, Schumer will be protected by the state of New York and the Criminal DOJ/FBI will go after anyone who complains
We should all send PedoJoe46….
a “get well soon”,“condolence”, and/or “sympathy” card….It seems that he might be vaxxx injured….
https://stevekirsch.substack.com/p/biden-is-highly-likely-vaccine-injured
Imagine 100,000 cards arriving from Brandon….with the postscript….
LGBFJB.
Why is this guy so sure Biden got “the real thing?”
I’m not convinced.
That’s what I said. When Joe got his vax, I told my husband, “How do we know that’s not just a B12 shot?”
The Totalitarian State … has hit a wall.
– mandate overreach rejected
– booster vaccine rejection
– child vaccine rejection
– fed up with mask mandates
The Fascist government has met its match. We The People
Not much of a wall when they simply plow ahead with all the tyrannical elements you mention.
There may be a couple of court cases making news, but nothing has really changed yet.
Real people are still losing their jobs, freedom and health over the jab, boosters, vax mandates, and mask mandates
It’s all changing NOW. Because The People are no longer complying … the Govt. wont even give a percentage of Child vaccinations … because the number is shockingly low. People aren’t STUPID
F’ing head faked us all, obviously
I don’t necessarily see this as a win for the people but rather the gov’t…This only helps the gov’t maintain war capabilities…It seems all things needed by gov’t are given an out on the vaccine.
The government has one job: Our Security, build away!!!!
g5494, given the instability of the world since LGB stole the election, we need to maintain war capabilities more than ever!!! China, Russia et al are emboldened given the predictable incompetent in the WH.
They didn’t “misunderstand” anything. The workers stood up against this Nazi horseshit and the JabNazis lost.
The Court decision also helped and applies to all companies, not just the ones who suddenly “discover” an exemption in their contract.
FYI. People were quitting and taking retirement. The loss of engineers and /or master shipbuilders with 40 plus years experience is a significant impact and loss of subject matter expertise.
Also note replacing employees is not easy. Many of the jobs there are specialized. Not easy to pull people off the street. They have issues as it is recruiting and also potential new hires I have heard often times fail the drug tests.
Also note many of the positions require security clearences. Security clearences for new hires takes time to get processed.
Contracts impacted by cost increases and extensions of delivery dates.
The C level exec’s in this company are ‘woke’
The shot does not work. This is shown by the fact that they are requiring booster after 6 months. It was known form the beginning that the shot was not safe, Yet the Government mandated it. The long term effects are not known but the short term are. NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT ADE. We now see that vaccinated people are more likelyto get Covid than the un-vaccinated. The stats show this. This is not new to the people who are pushing the shot. This is a CRIME against HUMANITY. If WWII was about anything we must stop this crime against humanity and try the people who are committing it. Forcing any person to undergo this vaccine with the know side effects and the lack of effectiveness is criminal. Forcing this in children is evil beyond belief.
The few shipyards that are still available to support US Navy warships after years of BRACs are backlogged with work, and the Navy’s fleet itself is deteriorating after twenty years of a lack of proper maintenance. The rate of new shipbuilding for Navy warships has slowed to a crawl.
Much of the money needed to keep the Navy’s ships properly maintained and the shipyards themselves technologically up to date was spent on Iraq and Afghanistan instead. All of this while China’s navy was rapidly expanding. And as far as I am aware, no new money is being made available to reverse this situation.
The Pentagon is calling climate change the most serious existential threat our nation now faces. Not China, which is being labeled by the Biden administration as a pacing competitor, not as an existential threat.
One of the first things Trump should do after being elected president for the
thirdsecond time is fire every general and admiral with two or more stars, along with every civilian member of the SES in the Pentagon.KEEP PUSHING BACK! FREEDOM!!!
…our Navy contracts with Newport News Shipbuilding do not include a vaccine mandate requirement at this time.
Temporary victory?
I appreciate the reversal of the ShipBuilder’s stance, but such a shame to all those who initially caved to keep their job.
I am glad somebody came to their senses. The Chicoms are turning out warships like wontons. What they lack in competent crews they intend to make up in sheer numbers. They will only get better.
They stole our technology and their warships are probably floating crap.
The blink heard round the world.
This is exactly what happened at the diesel engine company I work for. On Monday we were suddenly told the federal contractor mandate no longer applied and since the OSHA mandate is currently suspended there is no requirement for vax at this time.
Nevermind the months of angst and strife the government has put us through….
What a disaster this fake admin is for our country. I will not comply.
Are exempted employees going to have to endure weekly testing? I’d figure yes.
No mask, no vaccine, no test. I will not participate in any of it.
We have to stop with every last bit of it or it will never end.
Vaccine not required “at this time”. So what are they gonna do when it is time?
Lose all the same employees again, yet not 100% will return.
So I think the company will push back on their own. Also, I think the “not at this time” is woke speak for we lost and it ain’t happening.
Small consolation to those that already did it under coercion of their livelihood.
There are consequences for weakness.
It interests me that truck drivers, pilots, mailmen and now shipbuilders have more political power than NURSES, who only save your lives.
As I mentioned earlier, nurses and the medical community are in a unique and extremely unpleasant situation.
Because they are directly related to health care, any leeway by their employers will expose the fact that this has never been about health, but profits.
The hospitals are in DEEP, and can never give an inch on the COVID lies.
Health is supposed to be their core mission. If the hospitals relent on ANY ASPECT of the government narrative, their entire scam will come crashing down.
For all the deaths, the misery, the abandonment of their core purpose, their utter inhumanity, their cruelty…may the owners/administrators and any who set the protocols in these death factories find their Thanksgiving dinners turn to ashes in their mouths.
God bless those doctor and nurse whistleblowers who choose to sacrifice their jobs instead of their patients. And righteous judgement on those who forced them to make that choice.
It would be wise to find a way to anonymously advise management that if they force the vaccination and following booster shots, that many employees will do all they can to lower quality of work, slow down production, limit communications, counter management, piss off customers, reduce customer service and see to it that as much sand as possible be thrown into the gears of the organization. This would include those who plan on leaving and those who decide to take the jab to keep their job. They need to know that either way, among their ranks there will be people within their organization that will be seeking a failure of business and the chaos that will ensue will be an invisible, insidious cancer that will lead to lower profits, lost sales and lost customers. It’s up to them to decide. It’s their business to lose. Even though they may force many to quit, there will be many who will take the shot to keep their job but will be seething with contempt for their company inside and out.
Good news. Do not comply with tyranny.
The first truth is that there is massive power in numbers. Our army outmans the scurrilous malignant life destroying forces against us.
These putrid amoral malevolent tyrants have no idea what they have unleashed. They are now finding out they think they are in power, but in fact have none.
This is how it’s done. Power to the People is actually a thing. Who knew? Brilliant!
Did they reverse their position because they wanted to, or because they were faced with losing too many employees?
What has Joebama done to our country?
This is not a “win.” Existing contracts do not include the mandate, hence no requirement (grandfathered). All new contracts, after King Commode’s proclamation, will have the requirement. Contractors with the federal government should know how their contracts work and how difficult it is to modify existing contracts. Bootlicking and sloppy legal got beat down when faced with employee shortages.
Future contracts with a mandate will cost significantly more and have a longer time to deploy because of the loss of qualified trades people unwilling to take the jab.
Shipbuilding requires highly trained workers who cannot be readily replaced. The Navy (and everybody else) cannot have “ships” without them. You no longer have a company without them. No one’s walking up from Mexico who can do what they do. 🤷♂️
Southwest Employees Get Wind of a Huge Victory in Their Fight Against Vaccine Mandates
https://beckernews.com/winning-southwest-employees-get-wind-of-a-huge-victory-in-their-fight-against-vaccine-mandates-43193/
Hmmm, what a line of BS being sold. Don’t get me wrong, this is a win for freedom, Im talking about the message being presented by NNSB. The mandates were never legal (and will never be legal).
This quote stands out:
‘Huntington Ingalls clarified their Navy contracts “don’t include a vaccine mandate at this time.”’
Well, most of the contracts in place currently will not have mandates as part of them…
But, then what NNSB when the contracts are up? And, poof the new contracts contain mandate words.
“… at this time.” The contracts will change.
the tide is turning?