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Chicago Mayor Gives Unvaccinated City Workers Another Chance
The Pantagraph ^ | 3/14 | Gregory Pratt

Posted on 03/14/2022 3:21:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will give city workers who didn’t get their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Sunday a chance to get the shot before placing them on no-pay status, she said Monday.

Lightfoot implemented a rule requiring city workers get vaccinated by March 13 or lose pay. Asked Monday how the city would enforce its policies, Lightfoot said supervisors would call workers in to verify that they aren’t vaccinated and give them an opportunity to comply. They will then be given an order to get vaccinated and if they don’t, she said, then they’ll be placed on no-pay status, which is considered nondisciplinary.

That gives the city flexibility as it balances its public health rules with staffing issues, particularly in the Chicago Police Department.

“We’re not doing mass firings today,” Lightfoot said.

Lightfoot’s latest pronouncement comes after the city won another round in court last week in its legal battle with the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police over the vaccine mandate. But she faces pressure not just from the police union — which has appealed the latest legal ruling and claims the mandate will results in an exodus of officers — but also from a group of aldermen still seeking to undo the rule.

The lawsuit filed last year by Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 7 and other police unions against the city resulted in a February arbitrator ruling that upheld the requirement for city employees to be vaccinated, and set this Sunday as the deadline to get the first shot.

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot - January 2021 Dr. Allison Arwady, commissioner of the Chicago Department of Public Health, administers the first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to Mayor Lori Lightfoot at St. Bernard Hospital on the South Side in January 2021.

ASHLEE REZIN GARCIA, CHICAGO SUN TIMES VIA AP A judge’s decision last week to deny the union’s request to reconsider, and to lift a previous order pausing the vaccine policy, were additional setbacks for the local FOP, whose president, John Catanzara, has for months insisted the mandate violated union collective bargaining agreements.

The FOP has appealed that ruling, but Catanzara acknowledged to his membership in an online video Friday that unvaccinated officers could be placed on no-pay status Monday. However, he said the arbitrator indicated Friday that officers who have pending vaccine exemption requests will be excused from the rule until they receive a determination, and that those denied exemptions will get a six-week reprieve. Catanzara said hundreds of officers could fall into that category.

As of Monday morning, 30 Police Department employees and 19 Fire Department employees were on no-pay status, a city spokesperson said. Some city employees previously had their pay cut because they refused to report their vaccine status or submit to regular COVID-19 testing.

According to city data, 2,367 Police department employees still have not reported getting vaccinated, down from 2,777 last week. Nearly 80% of the department is vaccinated, compared to nearly 89% of the whole city workforce.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: allisonarwady; anthonyfauci; ashleerezingarcia; chicago; covidstooges; defundthepolice; fop; illinois; johncatanzara; lorilightfoot; obamacare; unvaccinated; vaccinemandates; vaccines; whatsherfrnick
I think she's coming from a position of weakness, yesterday she sounded tougher:

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot warns cops and city workers they'll be put on no-pay status if they don't get first dose of Covid vaccine by SUNDAY: About 2,800 police officers remain unvaccinated

1 posted on 03/14/2022 3:21:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

F this ugly RAT murdering pig.


2 posted on 03/14/2022 3:22:52 PM PDT by dforest
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To: nickcarraway

Tell the Ewok to get stuffed


3 posted on 03/14/2022 3:27:34 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: nickcarraway

The answer would still be no, but thankfully I don’t live or work in Chicago.


4 posted on 03/14/2022 3:30:08 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin ( (Natural born citizens are born here of citizen parents)(Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: nickcarraway

Is Pfizer directly paying her or is the money being washed through alternate sources?


5 posted on 03/14/2022 3:32:08 PM PDT by Track9 (Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
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BeetleJuice BeetleJuice BeetleJuice!!!


6 posted on 03/14/2022 3:42:27 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: nickcarraway

Has to be graft.


7 posted on 03/14/2022 3:45:03 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: nickcarraway

Lori Lightintheloafers?


8 posted on 03/14/2022 3:51:12 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Don't blame me, I voted for President Trump. Let's Go Brandon! FJB!)
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To: nickcarraway

They were losing almost their entire police force.


9 posted on 03/14/2022 3:52:00 PM PDT by Fireone (When they pry them from my cold, dead, unvaccinated hands.)
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To: butlerweave

Ewok is being kind. More like Orc.


10 posted on 03/14/2022 3:53:55 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: nickcarraway

Has there been any pushback?


11 posted on 03/14/2022 3:56:04 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA!)
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To: nickcarraway

“...verify that they aren’t vaccinated...”

???


12 posted on 03/14/2022 3:57:59 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: nickcarraway
Nobody in their right mind should want to work for Lightfoot or even live in the Chicago hell hole.
Just get the heck out of Chicago to avoid a very high probability of getting shot by some BLM lunatic.
13 posted on 03/14/2022 4:00:05 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: nickcarraway
groot


14 posted on 03/14/2022 4:18:44 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: Chode

Gollum.

Gollum.

And the large dyke says

My precious.

5.56mm


15 posted on 03/14/2022 4:23:36 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SmokingJoe

In fact, maybe they should just rename the city .. “BLMville”?


16 posted on 03/14/2022 4:43:39 PM PDT by The Duke (Search for 'Sydney Ducks' and understand what is needed.)
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To: nickcarraway

RESIST!


17 posted on 03/14/2022 6:39:13 PM PDT by Flick Lives (The CDC. Brought to you by Pfizer)
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To: nickcarraway

Worst mayor, ever.


18 posted on 03/14/2022 7:32:49 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: Rebelbase

try admiral Akbar
https://sweeneyville.blogspot.com/2013/04/spotlight-on-admiral-ackbar.html


19 posted on 03/15/2022 3:09:00 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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