Starbucks Coffee, which employs 228,000 people in the United States, announced that, in light of the Supreme Court decision last week that revealed the vaccine mandate for business as unconstitutional, the company would no longer require employees to be vaccinated.

Almost immediately, the hashtag #BoycottStarbucks began to trend on Twitter as users voiced their outrage at Starbucks’ decision.

Fox Business:

Starbucks Chief Operating Officer John Culver told employees in the memo that the company respected the ruling and would comply, even though it didn’t align with the company’s beliefs.

“I want to emphasize that we continue to believe strongly in the spirit and intent of the mandate,” Culver said. “Thank you to the more than 90 percent of partners who have already disclosed their vaccination status, and to the vast majority who are now fully vaccinated.”

Starbucks won’t be the only company that scraps the vaccine mandate. Just as Carhartt, the work clothing company, isn’t going to be the only company that maintains a vaccine mandate.

For instance, work clothing maker Carhartt, which has 3,000 U.S. workers, stuck to its vaccine mandate. The Dearborn, Michigan-based company told employees in an email last Friday that the Supreme Court decision wouldn’t impact its own mandate that went into effect this month.

“We put workplace safety at the very top of our priority list and the Supreme Court’s recent ruling doesn’t impact that core value,” Carhartt CEO Mark Valade wrote in an email to employees last Friday, according to a copy of the message that was circulated on social media. “We, and the medical community, continue to believe vaccines are necessary to ensure a safe working environment for every associate and even perhaps their households.”

There was a Twitter reaction to Carrhart’s decision, too.

And so it goes.

For Our VIP Subscribers: Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Mandate Was Always Doomed

Both Starbuck’s and Carhartt are exercising their own judgment in the matter of vaccines. That’s exactly how it should be. And if the workers from either company don’t like the policy, they are free to find alternative employment.

Have we really forgotten that this is what “freedom” is all about?  It’s not easy to be free. It’s not supposed to be. Individuals making their own choices instead of allowing the government to make decisions for them is fundamental to being free in America.

So many want to take that freedom away from us, citing “safety” as a reason. Before too long, we will sacrifice so much freedom for “safety” that in the end, we will have neither.


Source: PJ Media

Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments