A lot of news sources shared what happened in the UFT-NYC arbitration surrounding exemptions to the staff vaccine mandate (CNN, New York Post, SI Live). Essentially, the arbitrator ruled that the City overstepped its authority and there have to be medical and religious exemptions to the vaccine mandate. While the UFT has been saying this entire time that vaccines are the way to go, they have successfully pushed back and allowed people to keep their jobs and/or health insurance if they decided to take unpaid leave.
I am very curious to see how many people take advantage of this policy as I believe the science is pretty sound (and has great evidence of over 175 million people in the US have received the vaccine with a tiny percentage having negative effects). If it's a low number and still allows for herd immunity, I think it will be fine. If not, then we will have some problems.
In the meantime, a few teachers are suing the DOE over the vaccine mandate. I doubt it will go very far considering what the Biden administration is doing federally.
I am very curious to see how many people take advantage of this policy as I believe the science is pretty sound (and has great evidence of over 175 million people in the US have received the vaccine with a tiny percentage having negative effects). If it's a low number and still allows for herd immunity, I think it will be fine. If not, then we will have some problems.
In the meantime, a few teachers are suing the DOE over the vaccine mandate. I doubt it will go very far considering what the Biden administration is doing federally.
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