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Twenty-four former New York City workers who lost their jobs for refusing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate testified Tuesday at a City Council Committee on Civil Service and Labor meeting about how the mandates have affected their lives.
Although the city officially ended its COVID-19 vaccine mandate in February, many workers who lost their jobs to what The New York Times called an “aggressive and contentious mandate” continue to fight to have those jobs reinstated.
Some fired workers who were ultimately re-employed by the city lost their seniority, tenure and their right to challenge their employment status, workers testified.
“No one should be made to choose between his or her livelihood and a potentially deadly DNA-altering and experimental injection,” former teacher Rachel Maniscalco told the committee. “All city employees who were fired or were forced to resign during the vaccine mandate deserve an apology. We deserve our jobs back if we want them, and we’ve never stopped demanding to be made whole.”
“We Will Never Stop Demanding to Be Made Whole.”
NYC Teacher Fired Under DOE Vax Mandate and Never Reinstated Speaks at City Council Civil Service and Labor Committee Meeting pic.twitter.com/2MQ67QPgjf
— NYCforYourself (@nycforyourself) December 20, 2023
Michael Kane of Teachers For Choice spoke about the problem codes — the same ones assigned to people accused of molesting, raping or injuring a child — that were assigned to educators who were placed on unpaid leave for declining the vaccine, according to an internal email sent in 2022.
“One of the most egregious punishments … was the brandishing of a problem code, a scarlet letter that was placed on all unvaccinated employees,” Kane said. “These problem codes have prevented many from obtaining employment in New York City and outside as well.”
“Recently Mayor Adams had said, ‘When you can’t work, you’re being exploited. We fought hard to get rid of draconian rules. That’s why we’ve been saying to the national leaders, let them work.’ But he wasn’t speaking about unvaccinated, fired individuals.”
NYC Teacher… pic.twitter.com/VKNby8twVM
— NYCforYourself (@nycforyourself) December 20, 2023
Nine members of Congress representing New York demanded a full investigation by New York City Department of Education Chancellor David Banks into the problem codes in June, but Banks has yet to respond…
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