NYC Teacher's Union members held a disruptive protest against COVID vaccination mandates today...

[brooklynite]

...and no, it wasn't "they didn't have enough time to get vaccinated after Pfizer was finally approved", it's "my body, my choice" rants you normally hear from conservative anti-vaxxers.

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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Any evidence for the claim that "thousands of teachers" lost their jobs? Nt

[albacore]

2. I'm unclear.... Did the union support the mandate or the anti-vaxxers? nt

[brooklynite]

3. They started out opposing the mandate and then shifted gears.

[Scrivener7]

4. They started out unable to support a mandate because the FDA had not approved the vaccine.

The minute the FDA did approve it, the union backed the mandate.

[Scrivener7]

14. As soon as the FDA approved the vaccine, they backed the mandate. Before that they were

not legally able to do so.

[Scrivener7]

5. THIS HAS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH THE TEACHER'S UNION.

The teachers union is backing the mandate and supported the move to lock out unvaccinated teachers starting today.

Your other posts in this thread indicate that you know the union backs the vaccine mandate.

So why are you bashing the union?

[lagomorph777]

6. Are NY teachers unusually stupid?

How does that happen in such a blue city?

[Scrivener7]

7. This has nothing to do with the union. These are the teachers who were locked out today

because the union-supported vaccine deadline mandated that unvaccinated teachers not be allowed in schools as of today.

There are upwards of 80,000 New York teachers. A few hundred got locked out and made a stink.

And anecdotal reports I got were that most of them were from very, very red Staten Island.

[lagomorph777]

8. OK. Load 'em back on the ferry.

The OP is pretty confusing, and frankly a bit ... odd.

[Scrivener7]

11. The OP knows this has nothing to do with the union, yet uses a headline that misleads and trashes

the union.

And the press on this is disgusting. A few hundred fools out of 80,000 made a stink, and now all NY teachers are being shit upon.

That's the NY teachers who, as of today, are 100% vaccinated.

[lagomorph777]

12. I've had ...

a number of tussles with the OP over the years...

[Scrivener7]

13. A post as full of rank disinformation as the OP is deserves tussles.

[bottomofthehill]

9. Fuck them, if they don't want to get the vaccine, that's fine

Move to Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, Texas or any of the other “shithole” states that agree with you. Get Covid, fuck off and die.

There is a simple way to protect yourself and your students. Get the vaccine. It is safe, available and effective.

How fucking stupid. Maybe you should not be teaching……

[Scrivener7]

10. They are locked out as of today. They have a month without pay in which they can get the

vaccine and still get their job back. After that, they will not be allowed back.