Talking about the Airlines and such, it was just announced that United Airlines is saying that they're going to have to furlough half of their workforce 36k employees effective Oct 1st. They're saying all of this is going to be done if ticket sales don't increase by that point.
While this all sounds crazy at first glance, I'm thinking that this is pretty much a threat to US lawmakers and the employees to rally behind MORE money for the airlines. Not too good of a look for a politician to allow for 36k employees to get fired, especially when a lot of them are within a certain district.
Congressional money is TOTALLY going to go to them though. Even if they don't need it.
Update on this, American Airlines has just come out and said that they're going to have to furlough 25k employees when federal aid money stops going to them on October 1st. They're pretty much saying that if airline ticket sales don't increase, and federal money stops coming in, they're going to lay off employees.
Is it true that they're going to be laying off employees? Yes.
Is this the same exact thing that United did? Yes.
Are they putting a lot of pressure on the government to force the next stimulus package to have more money for the Airlines? Totally.
They want more money, and they know that by telling their employees that they may lose their jobs they're going to put pressure on senators / reps by calling them like crazy. Once it hits the news (like it already has) it's a wildfire in the making. Expect more companies to continue to do this.