The New York State Teacher's Union says they do not support a vaccine mandate

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

*sigh*

[Renew Deal]

1. How many unvaccinated teachers are there?

Sounds like a lot if they oppose a mandate. Last year they wanted to stay at home to protect themselves. How many of them don't want to get vaxxed this year?

[Dorian Gray]

15. I think it depends on the town/neighborhood

at my daughter's school in BK, it seems as though the vast majority are vaccinated. But another friend works at a school in another borough, and there are a decent chunk of younger teachers who don't want to get vaccinated. So, it's a crapshoot.

I think the teacher's union is going to break with the liberal parents in my area if they fight a mandate if/when cases continue to rise. People are frustrated and fed up.

[lagomorph777]

2. Idiots.

[lagomorph777]

7. Welcome to DU; enjoy your stay.

We don't welcome right-wing nonsense here.

[USALiberal]

9. Nice try! Nt

[JoanofArgh]

3. Fuck them.

[Bleacher Creature]

4. I'm usually pretty sympathetic to teachers unions, but they're flat out wrong here. NT

[Dorian Gray]

16. They're going to lose their supporters here in NYC

if they push against this. Families who supported them last year won't sympathize with people who won't get vaccinated to end this.

[Tomconroy]

5. Actually that is exactly what Cuomo proposed.

Weekly testing for the unvaxed.

[Meowmee]

8. Fnn idiots

What a disgrace. Said as a member myself.

[empedocles]

10. NY State has a lot of red counties.

[Jose Garcia]

14. But most of the population is blue

[Dream Girl]

11. Maybe they don't want to go back to the classroom

Keep Zooming for another year or two.

[Progressive dog]

12. They wouldn't have to get a vaccine if they just quit.

They probably should resign if they aren't capable of the critical thinking they claim to be teaching.

[Iggo]

13. Yeah, well...tough.

[Earth-shine]

17. Morning Joe just did a righteous rant about this.

Joe pretty much demands that they get vaxxed.

[dsc]

18. I watch him intermittently honest question

has he even once had such a rant about those who don't want mask mandates. I definitely want a vaccine mandate but also want a mask mandate. As it stands now, I could wind up quarantined because a student chose to be maskless.

[Earth-shine]

20. I can't say specifically that Joe did or did not ever use the phrase "mask mandate."

I can say that on MJ, as is the case with other MSNBC shows, the general position is wear the damn mask!

[Rustyeye77]

19. Unbelievable

They screamed we are not going back without vaccines.

Ok...now we dont want to have mandatory vaccines, we want testing.


enough bs

[Earth-shine]

21. I'm sure the internal politics of the teachers union is complicated and with seeming contradictions.

They will have loud and demanding members all over the place on these issues.

Ultimately, we need to think of the children, however clichéd that phrase may be.

I, personally, am very happy about being vaxxed. Bill Gates makes all my decisions for me, and I never lose my keys because they are magnetically stuck to my fingers.