if the administration removes the vaccine mandate. if you re a government supplier or contractor, you don t want to give up the revenue. your employees don t care about government contracts. they care about personal hospital. they don t think you as a ceo should be instructing them what they have to do or put in their bodies. unfortunately, this is something that s been coming. we ve been seeing it over and over again. now it s creating a head because you re coming up on december 8 deadline. people are saying no, i won t do it. you add on top of that a pilot shortage, man, you ve got just the makings of a disaster without a plane crashing. charles: yeah, it s the good news, we re starting to see the vaccines spike again. so maybe the administration will relent here and maybe that december 8 was just to scare everyone here to submission. because a lot of people aren t
one college s football coach after he did not comply with the state s mandate for employees. a mandate is going to go into effect december 8. tigers head coach refused to talk about his vaccine status and deflected questions about it again yesterday. i m aware of the new policy. you know, i appreciate you have to ask the question and understand it, but, you know, it doesn t change. the executive order, you know, all those things doesn t change the fact that i m not going to discuss any individual s decision or status on the vaccine or anyone else s, including my own. the world series starts tonight in houston. braves fans giving their team the red carpet treatment as they departed for their first fall classic since 1999. the astros, meanwhile, back in the world series the third time
answer. here s another one that came up this week. what do we have? i m an employer that just passed a vaccine mandate, deadline of october 15. lots of anger and noise about qui quitting. when the jobs and livelihoods are on the line few walk. i had 100% compliance in the end. look, i thought that was really significant to hear from my guest who represents 35,000 enterprises in 50 different states. i think six million employees. all in the supply chain, saying that this december 8 deadline that is looming, that work force is saying they will quit rather than be subject to a vax mandate. i m for the mandates, but i think we ned to pay attention to that because if we already have empty shelves, imagine what it could be like going into the holiday season which is why i wanted to shine a light on that. it seems the easy fix is, okay, if you re not going to get the vax by december 8, you must be
impacted by the december 8 deadline and they don t expect workers to fire or leave because of the federal vaccine mandates. chuck schumer has said this week that he was concerned about a potential travel mess during the holiday period with 40% of the tsa s work force still unvaccinated, charles. charles: thanks, susan. i want the read from our market gurus, francis and stacy and gary kaltbaum. gary, the port backlog is a huge problem. how about the vaccine mandate? how do you think adding to this, going to the holiday rush, will affect the market and the economy? well, worse. the word illogical bold face and ill just comes to mind. you know, susan li said it best. all of these ships in the port. just so you know, these ships are 50 yards wide and 3 football fields long. they carry 25,000 tons of stuff.
shipping giants will create a significant supply chain problem through the peak holiday season. the white house says they re extremely concerned it will be virtually impossible to have 100% of our respective work forces vaccinated by december 8. the problem is further exacerbated by the fact that we re already experiencing a worker shortage and that is evident in a log jam in the parts. 80 container ships are waiting and more to arrive from asia and set to worsen the transport bottle neck. jen psaki today says vaccine mandates are not the problem. we work to implement the federal employee requirement. the first step is not firings. it s education and counselling. we don t actually anticipate these disruptions. as for the holiday travel, the ceos of american airlines and southwest airlines say that holiday travel will not be