New York Mayor Eric Adams announced on Monday that 1,430 public-sector workers in the city were fired for failing to meet a Feb. 11 deadline to get vaccinated against COVID-19. As many as 4,000 city workers were given notice in January to be fully vaccinated as a condition of employment. Three-quarters of those workers had…
New York City Fires Nearly 1,500 Workers For Refusing COVID-19 Vaccine: Mayor
NYC’s Unvaccinated Teachers Need to Waive Right to Sue For 1 Year of Health Benefits
Aside from being put on unpaid leave, New York City teachers who’ve declined to get the COVID-19 vaccine won’t be allowed to keep their health benefits for another year unless they give up their right to sue the city over its vaccine mandate. This condition was the result of an arbitration invoked by the city’s…
NYC Unvaccinated Teachers Blame Union for Losing Their Jobs
BROOKLYN, New York—Teachers who were put on unpaid leave for non-compliance with a recent CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine mandate say New York City’s largest teachers’ union should have fought harder against the city’s vaccination requirement for school staff. Several hundred teachers and other school staff and supporters chanted, “We will not comply,” and…
Unvaccinated Teachers in NYC Blame Union for Losing Their Jobs
BROOKLYN, N.Y.—Teachers who were put on unpaid leave for non-compliance with a recent CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus vaccine mandate say New York City’s largest teachers’ union should have fought harder against the city’s vaccination requirement for school staff. Several hundred teachers and other school staff and supporters chanted, “We will not comply,” and other…
3,000 NYC Teachers Asked for Vaccination Exemptions, Union Says
Around 3,000 New York City teachers have asked for medical and religious exemptions from the city’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate, according to the city’s teachers union. The city requires all school staff to be vaccinated or exempted by midnight on Sept. 27. The union, United Federation of Teachers (UFT) said on Sept. 24 that 90-95 percent…
NYC: Thousands of School Staff Unvaccinated, Unions Want Mandate Deadline Delay
With the COVID-19 vaccine mandate about to go into effect, New York City school staff unions have urged the City Hall to delay the deadline lest schools face a staffing crunch. The city wants all school staff vaccinated, with only a narrow exception for medical and religious exemptions. Yet as of Sept. 24, there are…
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