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ARTICLE VIEW: | |
Airlines suspend workers for posts about shooting of Charlie Kirk | |
By Pete Muntean, CNN | |
Updated: | |
5:05 PM EDT, Sun September 14, 2025 | |
Source: CNN | |
Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Airlines say they have | |
suspended workers for social media posts about last week’s . | |
“We were made aware of Delta employees whose social media content, | |
related to the recent murder of activist Charlie Kirk, went well beyond | |
healthy, respectful debate,” Delta CEO Ed Bastian said in an internal | |
memo shared with CNN. | |
“These social posts stand in stark contrast to our values and our | |
social media policy, and these employees have been suspended pending an | |
investigation,” Bastian said in the memo. | |
In a statement, American Airlines says some employees who posted to | |
“promote such violence on social media were immediately removed from | |
service.” | |
The moves are among the latest corporate blowback on workers following | |
pressure from the Trump administration to fire those who “were caught | |
celebrating the assassination.” | |
“This behavior is disgusting and they should be fired,” | |
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy posted on X Saturday. “Any | |
company responsible for the safety of the traveling public cannot | |
tolerate that behavior.” | |
United Airlines also sent a memo to pilots reminding them of the | |
company’s social media policy. | |
Late Sunday, the airline confirmed to CNN that it has suspended workers | |
over the last few days. | |
In a statement, United Airlines said, “We’ve been clear with our | |
customers and employees that there’s zero tolerance for politically | |
motivated violence or any attempt to justify it.” | |
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