we just got this text from someone at the company. southwest still canceling or severely delaying over a thousand flights daily due to crew noncompliance. as an example, this past saturday, saw 1352 cancellations delayed. in dallas alone, we have over half the baggage handlers not coming into work. again, these are the people being targeted for pain by the administration. and because no one likes this works in the american mediaa there is not one person at cnn or msnbc who has any link to this part of the culture or these kind of people, this story is essentially going unreported. why are things not working? because the people who know how they work are being fired, or pushed to the point where they are walking off the job. so here we are at the end of october. think ahead a little bit. what is this going to look like in, say, six weeks, when the entire united states decides to get on an airplane and visit their relatives for the holidays?
small showing by members of the local union, as well as other g.e. employees who say they are not just frustrated by the vaccine mandate, they also feel betrayed by the company they say didn t give them enough time to choose. b these factory workers have done a great job. i think this is a slap in the face to them. we have been essential for 18 months, and now, we went from heroes to zeros. more than 200 schenectady employees walked out on their general electric jobs in protest friday. tucker: so take three steps back. what is going on here? well, thisng administration has targeted a very specific portion of the population. targeted them for ideological and political reasons. blue-collar men. the idea is they supported the wrong party, they have retrograde attitudes, they engage in wrong think, and we are going to crush them.
tucker: recently, espn like a lot of big companies around the country inform some employees they would have to follow to joe biden s vax mandates or leave, and some people did leave.e one of the people who left was a reporter called allison williams. she had good reason for that. she thought about it deeply, so we wanted to talk to her for quite some time. she joins us tonight to explainh why she did what she did. allison, thank you so much for coming on. i was so struck by your story because you were successful in what you were doing. you weree in the job you wanted to be in. you gave up t an awful lot to do what you did. i should say you are now at the daily wire, i should add that. i m interested, why you gave up so much in order to make this choice? i felt like i had no other choice, honestly, tucker. this was the most difficult
that looked closer at the numbers, the prime age male labor force participation rate which let s be honest, is the essence of this whole thing. now, that measure includes men age 25-54 and what we used to call the prime of their lives. currently, that rate is about 88%. what does that mean? well, for perspective, take you back to 1976, which if you were alive and living in america then, you remember as a pretty grim time, economically. inflation was wreaking havoc on the economy, worried about energy prices again. even then, the labor force per dissipation for working males was nowhere near today, 94%. to be very clear about these numbers, they have no precedent. right now at the exact moment when we need hundreds of factory workers, thousands across the country, you are seeing scenes like this. factory workerstr walking off te job. well, this is certainly no
safety, and that is why we need these mandates, right, to increase vaccination rates. but let me ask you this. are we safer as a community with less police officers? are we better off as a community when our hospitals are short-staffed because nurses are forced to leave their jobs over these mandates?os i am one of many across the country who lost their job because of a mandate. my impact on society? not that significant, i am a sports broadcaster, i understand that. but therets are people who contribute and uplift and support this community, members are military, good people who love their jobs, are now deciding or having to decide between providing for their family and getting an injection which they aren t comfortable with. that is un-american. that is not what takes place in the land of the free. tucker: no, you are exactly right and you speak for many and very articulately and thoughtfully. allison williams, i am grateful you came on tonight. thank you, tucker. tucker: so, a