A panel of judges on Monday allowed New York City’s vaccine mandate for public school employees to take effect.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said public school staff must be vaccinated by 5 p.m. on Friday as a three-judge panel from the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dissolved a temporary injunction placed on the requirement.
“Vaccinations are our strongest tool in the fight against COVID-19 — this ruling is on the right side of the law and will protect our students and staff,” a Department of Education representative said. “The mandate will go into effect on Friday end of day so that by Monday, Oct. 4, 100% of educators and staff in our buildings will be vaccinated.”
Attorney Mark Fonte, who brought a lawsuit challenging the mandate on behalf of a group of teachers, said he and attorney Louis Gelormino would petition the Supreme Court to block the mandate.
“With thousands of teachers not vaccinated the City may regret what it wished for,” Fonte said. “Our children will be left with no teaches and no security in schools.”
As of Monday, 87% of all employees in the New York City Department of Education had received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, including 90% of teachers and 97% of principles.
However, 10,000 teachers remain unvaccinated prompting concern that the mandate could lead to a teacher shortage if not enough substitutes can be found.
Unions have urged the state to push the deadline back as Michael Mulgrew, president of the United Federation of Teachers, said only about one-third of teachers believe their schools can open without interruption.
“The city has a lot of work before it to ensure that enough vaccinated staff will be available by the deadline,” said Mulgrew. “We will be working with our members to ensure, as far as possible, that our schools can open safely as the vaccine mandate is enforced.”
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The teachers’ unions should welcome the mandate with open arms, they were the ones with overwhelming support for the Biden candidacy and all the baggage of his COVID views that he was espousing. Since the union has become a good socialist in it’s views concerning teaching and education this complience should be mandatory, the collective over the individual is a basic tenet of what they have been teaching, they should lead by example.
Time for us, to “mandatory vaccinate’ the brains OUT OF THESE CRETIN judges…
Well, they can always appeal for a full “en banc” hearing.
And/or appeal to SCOTUS
So Biden lied to the Unions . Did they really think they would be favored . It is NOT in their overall plan, plus you should have donated more to him, hahaha. ( sorry , I was identifying as V.P. Harris just for a moment )
The courts are wrong…this a free nation to the citizen’s, all the citizen’s…bureaucrat’s do NOT get to run around playing GOD and either do the ******* in the black robes….they have NO standing to do so!
AND folks wonder, why i would LOVE TO BE able to vote everyone of these damnable judges, NOT JUST Off the benches they are currently on, BUT ANY FUTURE BENCH.. NONE of these morons, deserve to ever be called “YOUR HONOR” ever again!
LOL!!!! The dummycrat teacher’s unions just got bit by their dummycrat politicians. Love seeing dummycrats eat each other.