Largest US Health Care Union To Fight Mandatory COVID-19 Vaccines
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.
According to a memo, NewYork–Presbyterian informed its workers that it would require them to get at least their first COVID-19 vaccine shot by Sept. 1.
“We care for sick people–some critically so–every day, and we are responsible for their safety while in our care,” the mandate notice states. “The stakes in this matter are high, and the evidence is clear that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the most important and responsible action we can take as NYP team members for the safety and well-being of our patients and visitors, our communities, and ourselves.”
Gresham’s comments come after employees of Houston Methodist Hospital in Texas challenged the system’s vaccine requirement, which was rejected by a judge several weeks ago. A Houston Methodist spokesperson has since told The Epoch Times in an email that 153 employees were fired on June 22 or had quit during the previous two-week period.
“Many of my clients actually contracted COVID as a result of treating COVID-positive patients, and the thank you that Methodist Hospital gives them now is a pink slip,” said Jared Woodfill, an attorney representing the employees.
NewYork–Presbyterian didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
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very old white guy
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so a shot that can’t stop or prevent the spread of a flu virus, just may kill a person is to be mandatory? What is wrong with the people today.
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Lisa
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I, too, am perplexed. What if 50% of us don’t comply? Do people not understand the power of the collective?
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A Reasonable Man
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Just another example of how the enemy’s of freedom are assaulting all the bull works of our constitutional protection. Thank god people are fighting back. My daughter works in the medical field and my actually end up moving because of these attempts at coerced vaccination in our state. But the overall assault on all of our freedoms is the over arching threat now. We are witnessing the end of the civil society based on individual rights and liberty. The stakes could not be any higher! Organize, speak out , fight back. Please. No use quibbling over who are the evil puppet masters “behind the curtain”. Just resist and stop it all.
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Doug Harrison
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A quote from the article: “The stakes in this matter are high, and the evidence is clear that getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is the most important and responsible action we can take as NYP team members for the safety and well-being of our patients and visitors, our communities, and ourselves.”
There is absolutely no reliable evidence that the mRNA vaccines do anything useful and plenty that they do much harm.
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