Thousands of New York City’s unvaccinated civil servants have until Friday to get immunized against Covid-19 or they will be fired, with the city’s Mayor Eric Adams apparently determined to move forward with the terminations. , despite protests from union leaders.
Less than 4,000 of the city’s 370,000 workers were likely to be laid off at the end of January as a result of the vaccine mandate, according to the mayor’s office, which said it expects to have an updated number of affected employees by next Monday. 14).
While this represents less than 1% of New York City’s workforce, it would be one of the largest reductions in workers in the United States due to a vaccination requirement.
“We’re not laying off people, people are quitting,” Adams said in response to a question about mandatory vaccines at a Thursday press conference in the Bronx, where he was announcing a healthy food initiative.
“I want them to stay, I want them to be city officials, but they have to follow the rules,” he said.
The mayor appears willing to carry out the shutdowns even as New York state prepares to join other US states and cities in easing various Covid-19 restrictions amid a waning in the recent wave of infections linked to the Omicron variant. of the coronavirus.
Speaking to dozens of protesters this morning, Andrew Giuliani, son of former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, criticized the mandatory vaccination. He was taking part in a protest outside City Hall in Manhattan.
In interviews and statements, union leaders expressed dissatisfaction with the imposition of immunization.
“At the height of this thing, when people died every day, we had to come to work,” Harry Nespoli, president of the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association Local 831, told Reuters in an interview.
“Now you’re telling these members that they’re not good enough to be city workers,” he said.
Nespoli said about 40 of the 7,000 workers he represents had not been vaccinated against the coronavirus and faced the prospect of layoffs as of Friday morning, but he still believes some will take the immunizer instead of losing their jobs.
Source: CNN Brasil
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