Seattle Police and Firefighters swore they'd quit rather than get vaxxed! Hundreds!

[nolabear]

The news ran with it for weeks. We’re so screwed! Your house will burn! You’ll never get 9-1-1!

The deadline in in a couple of days. Sixteen firefighters and 24 cops are still holding out. 😂

Remember not to let them get to you with speculation and hysteria.

[brewens]

1. Those holding out would mostly be white supremacist FG followers we need to get rid of anyway. n/t

[The Magistrate]

2. Nothing's Cheaper Than Loud Defiance, Sir

[Joinfortmill]

3. More job opportunities for women and minorities.

[we can do it]

4. Buh bye

[Captain Zero]

7. Total Dumbasses.

So these people spend a work day out in public and for certain around some people with the potential to give them the Covid virus. But. Their personal choice is to do that, possibly get infected and THEN take it home to spouses, kids, elderly relatives, neighbors, etc.

They don't understand being in public service and PROTECTING their community. They really don't. Let them go.

[we can do it]

14. Retired firefighter/paramedic here- good riddance.

Selfish assholes who never should have taken on the job.

[stillcool]

5. amazing what people will fall

on their swords for. If they really want to prove the point they would give up their benefits as well.

[William Gustafson]

32. once they quit, they will lose those benefits...

and imagine when they get Covid, the hospital and doctors bill that they will have to pay out of their own pockets... which will be empty because they quit their jobs.... plus they might need a plastic surgeon to put that nose they cut off, back on.....

[plimsoll]

42. Probably most of those who will follow through on their threats are able to retire.

So they won't lose those benefits, and they're pretty (very) generous by civil service standards. I'm not sure it's possible to take their retirement benefits.

[IronLionZion]

6. They also claimed healthcare workers shortages from vaccine mandate firings/quits

we'll see about that too as COVID numbers have been declining.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. They should face some sort of disciplinary action for their attempts to make their depts look bad.

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[we can do it]

15. Just fire them, no pension.

[Autumn]

9. Awesome. Some job openings!

[Dave Bowman]

24. Lol, yes, I thought the same thing. 😊

[lpbk2713]

10. Don't let the door slap you on the ass on your way out.

Their co-workers would probably rather not care to have a threat to their health in close proximity.

[Stinky The Clown]

11. Send the 40 of them home without pay. Give them two weeks to comply

Then fire the shitbirds.

[we can do it]

16. That's too generous.

[Salviati]

22. I'd say a generous solution would be 4-6 weeks without pay.

They don't work until the vaccine is fully effective.

My preferred solution would be to fire the lot of them, effective tomorrow. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

[weissmam]

12. By By

ass-holes

[IbogaProject]

13. Bet those 40 are ready to retire

I bet those 40 are just getting an extra month of pay before they retire.

[Bev54]

20. Well hopefully it works the same as Chicago where they have advised any of those

who think they will just retire during a disciplinary action, they will lose their pension.

[hay rick]

17. Bet Seattle will be safer without those cops...

[DemInBuckhead]

18. I'm glad these cities called their bluff.

The cops who have been on the force for, say, 15 years and are closer to their retirement were never going to quit, lose their pension, and start over at 0 seniority somewhere else.

[marble falls]

19. Big dummies, they learned - there's always a bigger stick.

[catrose]

21. And in place of those cops, hire social workers & other skilled professionals

Since the police went and defunded themselves.

[caraher]

29. Yes!

It's actually hard to hire police in Seattle, but Seattle is also a place ready and willing to replace police with other professionals. A couple dozen bad apples won't be missed, especially when more effective use can be found for the money that would have paid them

[Scruffy1]

23. Thanks. n/t.

[Major Nikon]

25. Of all the hills people choose to fight on...

This has to be the absolute dumbest one of all time.

[kentuck]

26. You cannot force people to get a vaccine.

They will rebel.

You have to persuade them.

[bottomofthehill]

27. Agreed, persuade them with the potential loss of employment

[lagomorph777]

47. Seems to be pretty persuasive, doesn't it?

[samnsara]

53. but no one has ever been forced...all these folks have a choice.

[orleans]

28. chicago... the city & cops are in a standoff

"Just 54% of Chicago Police Officers Tell City Officials They Are Vaccinated Against COVID-19"

More than 35.6% of the Chicago Police Department — 4,543 employees — are in jeopardy of being disciplined and eventually fired for failing to comply with Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s order that they disclose their vaccination status to the city.

The Chicago Police Department has the lowest rate of compliance with the city’s vaccine mandate of all of the 15 city departments, according to the data. Before a judge ordered him on Friday to stop bashing the vaccine mandate, Fraternal Order of Police President John Catanzara repeatedly called for officers to defy the city’s order.

https://news.wttw.com/2021/10/18/just-54-chicago-police-officers-tell-city-officials-they-are-vaccinated-against-covid-19

(on edit: the vaccine deadline for the cops was last friday)
the city sent out emails to a number of towns asking if they would loan out a special division to help with various emergencies such as swat. kane county said no--

glad it's better in seattle

[Lasher]

33. FBI warned of white supremacists in law enforcement 10 years ago. Has anything changed?

In the 2006 bulletin, the FBI detailed the threat of white nationalists and skinheads infiltrating police in order to disrupt investigations against fellow members and recruit other supremacists. The bulletin was released during a period of scandal for many law enforcement agencies throughout the country, including a neo-Nazi gang formed by members of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department who harassed black and Latino communities. Similar investigations revealed officers and entire agencies with hate group ties in Illinois, Ohio and Texas.

Much of the bulletin has been redacted, but in it, the FBI identified white supremacists in law enforcement as a concern, because of their access to both “restricted areas vulnerable to sabotage” and elected officials or people who could be seen as “potential targets for violence.” The memo also warned of “ghost skins,” hate group members who don’t overtly display their beliefs in order to “blend into society and covertly advance white supremacist causes.”

“At least one white supremacist group has reportedly encouraged ghost skins to seek positions in law enforcement for the capability of alerting skinhead crews of pending investigative action against them,” the report read.

Problems with white supremacists in law enforcement have surfaced since that report. In 2014, two Florida officers — including a deputy police chief — were fired after an FBI informant outed them as members of the Ku Klux Klan. It marked the second time within five years that the agency uncovered an officer’s membership in the KKK. Several agencies nationwide have also launched investigations into personnel who may not be formal hate group members, but face allegations of race-based misconduct.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/fbi-white-supremacists-in-law-enforcement

[mopinko]

36. chicago is different. they're trying to get away w a strike by another name.

they think they can play this like a 'blue flu' action.
lori lightfoot- "we're not having that", and filed a lawsuit.

[ProfessorGAC]

50. Some Weirdness In Those Numbers

I read that report yesterday'.
The way it's framed is that 54% REPORT being fully vaxxed. But, that doesn't mean 46% aren't vaxxed.
The number reporting they aren't vaxxed was relatively tiny.
Given the leadership & union are encouraging resistance, I wonder how many of that 46% are vaxxed but don't want to declare, worried about push back from the idiots among them.
So, the number might be way higher than 54%, but the system is rigged against accurate figures.

[orleans]

56. i thought the same thing.

i would have responded earlier but my damn internet has been out (since the "landscapers" mowed over the unburied cable wires!)

[certainot]

30. i suspect radio stations across the country are bloating the hesitancy x10

[ShazzieB]

31. Sound like somebody's bluff got called! 🤣

Those cops and firefighters probably thought that if they yelled and screamed enough and threatened to hold their breath till they turned blue (i.e., quit their jobs), the powers that be would back off and go, "Oh, sorry, guys! We were just kidding! You don't REALLY have to get vaxxed! Oops, our bad!"

Then they found out that was not going to happen and the choice was actually "Get the jab or you're out of a job, for realz! No backsies!" And most of them realized they actually didn't want to give up their paycheck to make a political statement! That seems to be what's happening a lot of places, and I'm going through a lot of popcorn watching all this play out.

[nolabear]

34. I think you're exactly right.

They’re used to shoving their way along and thought they were important enough to hold the actual powers hostage. Nope.

[empedocles]

35. $72,000 grand may per year may give the Chicago 'swearers/bluffers' some 2nd thoughts

$48,078
Starting salary for Chicago police officers in 2016 is $48,078, which is increased to $72,510 after 18 months. Promotions to specialized or command positions also increase an officer's base pay. Salaries were supplemented with a $2,920 annual duty availability and an $1,800 annual uniform allowance.
Annual budget: $1.7 billion (2020)
Employees: 13,086 (2020)
.
Chicago Police Department - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Police_Department

[packman]

37. Let the idiots leave and get a $12 hr. job flippin' burgers

Morons

[Aristus]

39. Yeah, I hear the fast-food joints are hurting for workers.

Now is their opportunity!

[Tommymac]

38. Another Corporate owned MSM exaggeration.

I'll continue to pound on them as long as I can draw a breath.

Fucking profit driven fear mongers.

[Oppaloopa]

40. I am getting very irritated at Unions over this Why are they not trying to educate them?

My brother in law is a trumper in South Carolina . His doctor sat him down and talked to him Now he has 2 shots and his booster.

[llashram]

41. There is no

journalism at all anymore. It's all drama and profit-driven LIES.

[live love laugh]

43. The media megaphone promotes their crap 💩. Eff them

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

44. Wrong

[nolabear]

45. What's wrong? This says the same thing.

Except this is today.

[AZLD4Candidate]

46. This could be good. These are the one that, most likely, would abuse their authority

Their attitude seems to be "how dare you tell me to do anything, peon. I wear a badge."

They'll lose their job and get rehired in a new precinct that has endemic issues, like Albuquerque.

[634-5789]

48. Don't let the fuckin' door hit you in the ass, MORANS!

[Scrivener7]

49. Same with that tiny percentage of NYC school personnel. Smaller and smaller by the day.

[Paladin]

51. Fuck 'em. Let them walk away from their public safety jobs. (nt)

[samnsara]

52. weeding out the undesirables..

[3auld6phart]

54. Then quit

Please quit. It will save the taxpayers a load. Not having to
pay for your Hospital fees, funeral expenses, widows pension.
Over 400 + LEOs have died from Covid. Some before the vac-
cone became available. But quite a few refused the shot. Sad.
Any and all employees that are public civil servants that re-
fuse the vaccines should be terminated.

[Luciferous]

55. 100% of our department got vaccinated. My

boss said, yay I don't have to fire anyone lol we have a few people who grumbled but they still did it