New York City fired more than a thousand workers who failed to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, the mayor’s office said Monday.
The 1,430 workers who lost their jobs represent less than 1% of the 370,000-person city workforce and are far fewer terminations than expected before a Friday deadline to get the shots.
The city sent notices in late January to up to 4,000 workers, saying they had to show proof they got at least two doses of the vaccine or else they’d lose their jobs. Three-quarters of those workers had already been on leave without pay for months, having missed an earlier deadline for getting vaccinated in order to stay on the job.
Mayor Eric Adams’ office said hundreds of workers produced proof of their vaccines or got the shots after being notified they would be fired.
“City workers served on the front lines during the pandemic, and by getting vaccinated, they are, once again, showing how they are willing to do the right thing to protect themselves and all New Yorkers,” Adams said in a statement. “Our goal was always to vaccinate, not terminate, and city workers stepped up and met the goal placed before them.”
Of the 1,430 fired workers, about 64% worked for the city’s education department. The United Federation of Teachers, the public school teachers’ union, said last week that about 700 of its members had been given notice they would be fired. The union joined with others to sue to block the firings, but a judge ruled in favor of the city on Thursday.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday dismissed an appeal from a group of Department of Education employees.
New York City has imposed some of the most sweeping vaccine mandates in the country, requiring almost all city workers to be vaccinated and requiring private employers to ensure their workers get vaccinated as well. Customers of restaurants, gym and entertainment venues also have to show proof of vaccine to enter.
The United Federation of Teachers had struck a deal with the city to allow its members to choose to stay on unpaid leave until September 5. But about 700 members opted not to extend their leave or provide proof of vaccine. The union contended that the workers deserved due process that involved a hearing before being fired.
The United Federation of Teachers did not immediately have a comment Monday on the numbers released by the city.
Last week, New York City averaged about 1,700 new cases of the virus per day, according to state statistics. That’s down from nearly 41,000 cases per day at the peak of the omicron wave in early January, but still about 56% higher than when the vaccine mandate was announced for city employees in October.
(AP)
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Gotta follow the science
Good.
We are ruled by unrepentant reshoim…
Very smart move!
This is unjust and legislation of brutal force and coercion.
Many who stayed on their jobs did not wish to take the no-liability, experimental injection, but were financially unable to protest and assert their rightful freedoms.
The Nuremberg Code was accepted by the US government as well as everywhere else, and NYC’s coercive measures are violations of ‘informed consent’ and must be overturned.
Vaccine science is theory – its hypotheses artificially lifted to validity in large by sponsored Pharma money and bullied upon the public by uninformed legislators who do not adequately protect citizens’ rights by endorsing this manipulated tobacco science data. Vaccine science and its predecessor, germ theory, are and have been openly disputed ideas since their inception and do not make for honest politics.
Pasteur, the ‘father of germ theory’, himself later recanted it, stating on his deathbed: “Bernard was correct. I was wrong. The microbe (germ) is nothing. The terrain (milieu) is everything.” (Bernard was Claude Bernard, who got the terrain theory from Antoine Béchamp – a true hero of natural health ideas and lifestyle).
Can someone, anyone, explain to me how you can be affected by my getting a vaccine?
If you tell me that fewer vaccinated people can get and spread the virus then I will say NO, you’re wrong. It has been proven in the US, UK, Israel and many other countries that most of the people who get the virus are vaccinated and have already taken the booster or 2. The booster may help the person who is ill with the virus have fewer symptoms and/or recover quicker but having been jabbed 2, 3 or even 4 times won’t prevent you from getting the virus. No, this is not an epidemic of the unvaccinated, it is an epidemic of the vaccinated.
“Brutal Force”, violations of “Nuremberg Code” Gevalt, Gevalt Gevalt!!
No one is forcing you to get the vaccine. However, private employers and the government for decades have been allowed to decide who their hire and who they fire based on the risks their employment post to the employer. If you don’t want to be vaccinated, go work for someone who shares your risk profile and doesn’t mind having you breathing in his/her space.
THE POLITICIANS IN GOVT. WHO ARE COERCING GOVT WORKERS TO VACCINATE AND THREATEN THEM WITH THEIR LIVELIHOODS- ARE THEY WILLING TO SHELL OUT MILLIONS OR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THE VACCINE INJURED? ARE THEY BACKING THESE SO CALLED VACCINES AS 100% SAFE? IF NOT, THEY CAN’T FORCE ANYONE TO GET THE VACCINE. THAT’S SIMPLY BULLYING, FRAUD, AND STEALING.
JUST BECAUSE PFIZER , MODERNA , ETC. ARE OVERSTOCKED WITH BILLIONS OF USELESS VIALS THAT CAN’T EVEN STOP A VIRUS, WE DON’T NEED TO INJECT THEM IN INNOCENT PEOPLE’S ARMS. THEY CAN BE THROWN INTO THE OCEAN…. AH… BUT THEN THE ENVIRONMENTALISTS WILL CLAIM IT’S KILLING THE SEA CREATURES. SO… BETTER IN THE ARMS OF ALL THE SHEEPLE.