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A potential safety issue is coming to a head in Chicago as police officers resist COVID-19 vaccine mandates, possibly leaving their departments under-staffed as homicides and shootings increase.
Chicago Police Union president John Catanzara has urged officers to ignore the midnight deadline to report their vaccine status to the city. If the city tries to punish officers for not complying, only half will show up to patrol city streets, Catanzara predicted.
"Any sergeant, lieutenant, captain or above who gives you an order to go in that portal is not valid. You are able to refuse that order," he said.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot said officers who refuse to report their vaccine status "do so at their peril."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/chicago-police-union-boss-urges-officers-to-defy-covid-vaccine-mandate/ar-AAPAaCo
I'm generally pro-union but it seems those who head police unions are out and out fascists.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)and are answerable to nobody.
wryter2000
(46,023 posts)Given all the interaction with all kinds of people their job requires, they should be demanding vaccination. This shows their true colors, Trumpian through and through.
Turbineguy
(37,295 posts)pay Union dues.
haele
(12,640 posts)Their members from the greatest cause of police deaths over the past two years. Twice as many police and their families have died of Covid than any other cause.
The unions are playing politics with their member's lives.
Point that out!
Haele
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Call out the Guard if necessary, but terminate each and every one of these losers.
Bev54
(10,039 posts)to stop him from making any more bullshit statements??
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Anyone heard what percentage actually walked off?
Kinda hoping this went down the same as every other place that's implemented mandates and the vast majority just went and got vaxxed
Bev54
(10,039 posts)EleanorR
(2,388 posts)https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-police-officers-leading-cause-death/
Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)It is, and it always has been, only about having power over other people.
Initech
(100,042 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,578 posts)and are willing to be answerable to civilian leadership and the public.
This is ridiculous and intolerable.
rockfordfile
(8,699 posts)They don't care at all about the police officers. If they did, they wouldn't be doing this anti-American anti-vaccine crap.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,765 posts)A judge ordered the head of Chicagos police union to stop urging officers on social media to defy a requirement to report their Covid-19 vaccination status.
The temporary restraining order hands a momentary victory to Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot in the fight over the mandate, which threatens to widen into a public-safety issue if police officers walk off the job. Cook County Judge Cecilia Horan ruled late Friday that irreparable harm was possible if union leader John Catanzara Jr. continued to make his statements.
Lightfoot has argued that Catanzara, president of Fraternal Order of Police Chicago Lodge #7, was already jeopardizing public safety and engaging in a work stoppage by telling officers to snub the requirement to report their status on the citys employee portal.
The reporting deadline was Friday. Chicago has said that unvaccinated officers could be placed on unpaid leave, though city officials say theres no immediate threat to the jobs of officers who dont comply.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/silence-ordered-for-chicago-police-union-head-in-vaccine-fight/ar-AAPBzmN