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Largest US Health Care Union Will Fight Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines
Epoch Times ^
| 06/23/2021
| Jack Phillips
Posted on 06/23/2021 8:19:55 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The president of the largest union of health care workers in the United States says the organization will fight against companies requiring mandatory COVID-19 vaccines for employees.
George Gresham, president of 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East—which describes itself as the largest health care union in the country—said hospital systems don’t have the right to mandate vaccines for employees. The union, which is based in New York, also represents hundreds of thousands of nurses and caregivers in New Jersey, Florida, Washington, Maryland, and Massachusetts.
“Whether there is a legal challenge that we can make, or whether it’s just a pure organizational challenge that we can make, we are not going to just give in,” Gresham told local news website Gothamist this week.
Earlier in June, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital in New York had mandated that its employees be vaccinated against the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19, coming as other hospital systems across the United States have done the same.
The union president said that he’s vaccinated against the virus and has encouraged union members to get vaccinated as well. However, he told the website that workers “have the right to make their decision about their own health,” and met with NewYork-Presbyterian Chief Executive Steve Corwin to discuss unvaccinated union members’ concerns about the company’s policy.
It’s not just 1199SEIU that has opposed mandatory shots, as the New York State Nurses Association (NYSNA) released a statement opposing vaccine mandates.
“NYSNA strongly opposes the mandatory vaccination of health care providers for COVID-19 as a condition of employment or as a state or federal mandate,” the union states on its website.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Connecticut; US: New Jersey; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: covid; covid19; florida; healthcare; mandatory; mandatoryvaccines; maryland; newjersey; seiu; union; vaccinated; vaccination; vaccine; vaccinemandates; vaccines; virus; washington
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To: SeekAndFind
The Purple People Beaters....
They only jump when their masters, the DNC tell them to jump.
Hmmmm
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posted on
06/23/2021 8:26:24 PM PDT
by
Zathras
To: SeekAndFind
Since the government does NOT care about people and our welfare... why are they pushing the vaccine?
Yes. I believe its sinister... everything else they do is!!!
To: SeekAndFind
Wow, good for them.
Not anti Vax. Just anti propaganda and anti hysteria. Vaccines should not be mandatory.
If hospitalized people are worried about catching one thing or another THEY can get vaccinated. They should not expect it of others.
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posted on
06/23/2021 8:52:59 PM PDT
by
Persevero
(I am afraid propriety has been set at naught. - Jane Austen )
To: SeekAndFind
“said hospital systems don’t have the right to mandate vaccines for employees”
Of course they don’t. Nobody believes they do.
But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment. Hell, they can make abstinence from Nicotine a condition of employment, or Flu vaccine.
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posted on
06/23/2021 9:05:38 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Even if they are publicly funded???
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posted on
06/23/2021 9:15:21 PM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around - God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: DennisR
Yes.
Vax requirements are standard for hospitals.
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posted on
06/23/2021 9:19:04 PM PDT
by
Mariner
(War Criminal #18)
To: Mariner
Not experimental ones, though.
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posted on
06/23/2021 9:46:27 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Mariner
But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment,,,,,
At the hospital where I worked they ‘encouraged” you to get the flu vaccine. If you declined, you had to wear mask, gloves, and gown in the clinical area.
We all cracked up when we saw the CEO of the hospital walking through the clinical area with mask, gloves, and gown on.
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posted on
06/23/2021 9:56:47 PM PDT
by
Ceebass
(USA RIP 1776-2021)
To: ransomnote; Cathi; SecAmndmt; metmom; Jan_Sobieski; Pollard; HypatiaTaught; bagster; ...
Well, well, well ping.
FINALLY!!
After SO many BigPharma owned hospital systems demanded how many employees take these risky shots??
Houston Methodist CEO probably just cr@pped his massive bedpan.
Next up, AIRLINE unions, please!
Now, where are all of those FR VPs insisting these employer/hospital mandates, of these EXPERIMENTAL, UNPROVEN and seemingly dangerous shots, was perfectly fine?
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posted on
06/24/2021 6:55:38 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: fireman15; P-Marlowe; Maudeen; Freedom56v2; TBall; doc maverick; Fractal Trader
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posted on
06/24/2021 6:58:57 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: Jane Long; numberonepal
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posted on
06/24/2021 7:00:09 AM PDT
by
grey_whiskers
(The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
To: grey_whiskers; numberonepal
Thanks for that tweet h/t....Dr Ruby Jane is great....she's the one whose vid I screengrabbed the mouse heart before/after pics from, that I recently posted.
Reposting her breaking news tweet, here....thx numberonepal
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posted on
06/24/2021 7:11:28 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: Jane Long
Lady my wife works with at the nursing home said they company is thinking about making vaccine mandatory for employees. My wife said, oh well, I’ll be looking for another job if they do.
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posted on
06/24/2021 7:12:32 AM PDT
by
Pollard
To: Pollard
Well, hopefully, your wife - and other HCWs, who do NOT want to take these proven risky shots - can show their employers this article (and others that will likely be coming out, soon) and stop this nonsense, fast.
Hoping so, anyhow.
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posted on
06/24/2021 7:22:43 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: Jane Long
To: Jane Long
Let's hope that it is the start of more and more pushback!!
Thanks for the ping!
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posted on
06/24/2021 8:00:20 AM PDT
by
zzeeman
("We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality." )
To: ExTexasRedhead
Pinging you to this thread.
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posted on
06/24/2021 8:47:47 AM PDT
by
Jane Long
(America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
To: SeekAndFind
I’ve had to take various vaccines in the past in order to travel to or live in overseas locations. Even as a military brat kid, we had to get certain shots when we were stationed in Italy. No big deal.
But there’s something about the zealous and frenzied manner in which the government and media are pushing this vaccine that raises my skepticism. They’re trying to force it and they shouldn’t be doing that.
Kudos to any organization who is fighting this.
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posted on
06/24/2021 8:52:46 AM PDT
by
Allegra
To: Mariner
But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment. Hell, they can make abstinence from Nicotine a condition of employment, or Flu vaccin
Not really. They can set workplace conditions, but anything which sets conditions outside of the workplace and work hours, they have no right to set.
Else, let management be responsible for paying employees for 168 hours each week, including vacation. Mask wearing and hand washing are fine. Stay home when sick is fine.
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posted on
06/24/2021 9:53:23 AM PDT
by
SecAmndmt
(Aim small, miss small)
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