‘Mental Anguish, Financial and Emotional Distress’: Unvaxed United Airlines Employees Send 1,000s of Letters to Board of Directors

A United Airlines pilot of more than six years and his wife suffered “mental anguish, financial and emotional distress” following the company’s enforcement of its vaccine mandate, and were ruined financially to the point of being unable to afford in-vitro fertilization (IVF) after a crushing miscarriage, a letter to the company’s board of directors reads.

Breitbart News learned exclusively that potentially thousands of unvaccinated United Airlines employees — including the Orthodox Jewish pilot trying to expand his family — sent letters to the company’s board of directors last week detailing the struggles they have endured because of the company’s mandate. United Airlines’ 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.

The mandate is currently the subject of a class-action lawsuit representing 2,000 employees who were placed on unpaid leave because of their refusal to get vaccinated. In mid-February, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit delivered a substantial victory to the United employees, ruling that the company’s mandate inflicts “irreparable harm” because it “coerce[s] the plaintiffs into violating their religious convictions.

“…That harm and that harm alone is irreparable and supports a preliminary injunction,” the three-judge panel ruled 2-1, ultimately sending the case back to District Court Judge Mark Pittman for further review.

Co-founder of Airline Employees 4 Health Freedom and experienced airline Captain Sherry Walker exclusively told Breitbart News that her organization is “extremely happy that the Fifth [Circuit] has recognized the pain and suffering and the irreparable harm” caused to its members because of United’s stringent vaccine mandate.- READ MORE