Boston workers organize against vaccine mandate as thousands face termination

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A group of city workers are organizing to fight Mayor Michelle Wu’s vaccine mandate, announced last week, which removes the option for city workers to get regularly tested instead of getting vaccinated against COVID-19, unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption.

Approximately 2,300 city employees and contractors are out of compliance and face termination unless they present proof of vaccination by Jan. 15, according to a spokesperson from Wu’s administration. Proof of a second dose will be required by Feb. 15.

“They really have removed choice. It’s either do what we say, or we’ll make you do it,” said Shana Cottone, a Boston Police sergeant and president of Boston First Responders United, a grassroots group of city employees formed in July of last year. “If you don't do it, we will take everything away from you, and we will ruin you so that you are nothing.”

Cottone’s group is in the preliminary stages of preparing a legal challenge to the mandate, planning to demand that city employees return to their jobs without vaccination and receive financial damages.

Read more: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2021/12/29/boston-workers-organize-against-vaccine-mandate-as-thousands-face-termination

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1. poor little victims

“They really have removed choice. It’s either do what we say, or we’ll make you do it,” said Shana Cottone, a Boston Police sergeant and president of Boston First Responders United, a grassroots group of city employees formed in July of last year. “If you don't do it, we will take everything away from you, and we will ruin you so that you are nothing.”

Nope. We just don't want you taking tax payer money to run around and infect us while in the course of doing the jobs we pay you to do.

Find another place to work.

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2. As if dying of Covid isn't ruining "you so that you are nothing."

Imagine having a pre-existing co-morbidity, having to call an ambulance, and having one of these jerks be the first responder.