Posted on 04/22/2022 5:26:51 AM PDT by csvset
NEW YORK (PIX11) — Dozens of New York City public school teachers have been accused by the Department of Education of providing fake COVID-19 vaccination cards, according to the United Federation of Teachers union.
A UFT spokesperson told PIX11 News Friday morning the allegations were leveled against about 70 of its members, including tenured teachers and staff with contractual protections. The accused were told they would be placed on unpaid leave for submitting fake COVID-19 vaccine cards when the agency mandated them to return to work, according to the union.
Public school teachers were required to get vaccinated against COVID before the start of the school year in September. Despite multiple attempts to overturn the mandate in court, anyone who refused to comply and did not get approved for an exemption was fired.
Now, dozens of teachers have been accused of submitting forged vaccine cards to keep their jobs. The DOE notified the teachers around Tuesday they would be placed on unpaid leave with benefits beginning Monday, per the union.
The Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District and law enforcement agencies will investigate the allegations, according to the DOE. “Fraudulent vaccination cards are not only illegal, they also undermine the best line of protection our schools have against COVID-19 – universal adult vaccination . We immediately moved to put these employees – fewer than 100 – on leave without pay,” a DOE spokesperson told PIX11 News Friday.
However, the UFT said the allegations are “unproven” and accused the DOE of stripping its members of compulsory due process procedures. In a letter to the DOE, obtained by PIX11 News, the UFT said some of the accused emailed the agency to inform them they sent the notice in error, but none of them had not received a response from the city as of Thursday.
“It is wholly improper for the DOE to unilaterally remove UFT members from the payroll based on mere conjecture that vaccination documentation is fraudulent,” the letter stated.
The controversy comes amid another spike in COVID-19 cases around the five boroughs. Questions have been raised over whether students could have been exposed by unvaccinated teachers. Mayor Eric Adams has been very vocal about the vaccine mandate for city workers.
The UFT demanded the DOE immediately rescind the notices by the end of the day Friday so the affected union members will remain on the payroll come Monday. The union said it’s prepared to initiate litigation to challenge the DOE’s actions if necessary.
This statement is fraudulent. Fight the power ! I wish these folks the best of luck in their efforts.
I’d wish them luck save for the fact that these are likely the same expletives-deleted insisting kids get shot up.
Vaxxes for thee, but not for me.
Sounds like there are a lot of NYC teachers that are not as dumb as I thought they were.
If they all vote DemoRat let the infighting kerfluffle commence. They need to feel the pain of the misery they vote Rat for. If they get converted to conservatives then it was worth it.
:: “Fraudulent vaccination cards are not only illegal ::
And...the LEGISLATURE considered and passed this LAW, when?
Clearly, they are not against the law.
Either you are mandated to have an experimental, gene-altering substance that will not stop you from catching, spreading or getting sick from the Fauci Flu (and may itself make you sick or possibly suffer a heart attack) forcibly injected into your body, or be fired from your job in a totalitarian hellhole.
I would LOVE to see a high profile fight to happen between the Union and the Feds (or NYS).
But the Union is too strong. The gov will cave almost immediately. They own far too many pols for this to move forward.
I expect we will never see any more info about this article again. and it will be resolved by a major “misunderstanding or clerical error”
Also unless you have at least FOUR comorbitities you have a 99.8% chance of recovery.
It’s pretty trivial these days to train a model to read and process images of things like vaccination cards. One would probably have to ensure that the batch numbers used on the cards are plausible. i.e. they can be cross referenced to purported location and date. Haven’t seen any public records of individuals as that would violate HIPPA. However, if someone was really, really serious a court order could probably be obtained to check the records. If the Feds were involved, they could do it through FISA or something just by saying you talking to russians or chinese.
Any actual "vaccine" cards are evidence for Nuremberg II.
Normally I would be OK with faking vaccination cards to stay employed by I think these hypocrites and their union should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
It’s crazy some places want their mask mandates back ! Vax, masks, vax cards, to hell with all of it.
I highly doubt the batch numbers won’t line up. They likely grabbed the card from one guy dumb enough to do it, then just copied that. So batch, date, and location should all check out.
The only way to really check is if the site maintained records of who they stabbed, the teachers would have a hard time faking that.
But as much as I dislike teachers/union, hopefully they fight and an investigation shows there’s way more than just 70 faked shots...
I can’t bring myself to give a damn about the rights of any member of a teachers union in a major leftist city like New York. You people built this monster, if it eats you too bad
In general, which is a generalization of course, the teachers unions all over the country have played a significant role in government overreach on this pandemic. They have milked it for what it’s worth, they have advocated policies that benefit no one but themselves.
If individual members of the teachers union did not agree with the policies of the union and the school system they could do what the rest of us peons do. Look for another job.
I am really tired of this notion that they push that somehow teachers are more special and just better than other people because they’re around your children, that’s a bunch of crap
I have met a few outstanding teachers in the last couple of decades. A fair number of mediocre teachers, and a fair number that shouldn’t be allowed near your children. Ditto for administrators.
Back to my original statement, I don’t care what happens to these people. A victory for the teachers union is no victory for normal people, even if you happen to agree with what they’re fighting for. Because they’re not doing it for your benefit. As a disclaimer for my attitude, I had quite close contact and involvement with government schools in the 90s. My antipathy is completely justified by my experience.
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