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Mask Mandate Reinstated At Rutgers After Faculty Legal Action
patch.com ^

Posted on 10/05/2022 6:55:42 PM PDT by matt04

Masks are back at Rutgers University after the faculty unions were able to reverse a decision made last Monday eliminating the masking requirement outside the clinical setting.

Three Rutgers faculty unions said they were never consulted on the decision to remove the mask mandate and Friday afternoon, they filed a legal complaint with the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission (PERC).

"We learned (with little notice) that Rutgers would no longer require face coverings in classrooms and libraries ... Our unions won a temporary restraining order," said Rutgers professors Rebecca Givan and Todd Wolfson, president and vice president of Rutgers AAUP-AFT in this statement Monday. "These have been our goals from the start this fall: give instructors the right to weigh the concerns and judge what is best within their classrooms for their health and safety and that of their families, students and communities."

Monday, PERC sided with the unions, issuing a temporary order that now states everyone must wear face masks in libraries. PERC also said professors can still require masks in their individual classrooms.

For their part, Rutgers administration is trying to overturn the PERC ruling, and lift the mask requirement in libraries and remove the right of professors to require masks in their individual classrooms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: covid; mask; maskmandate; rutgers
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Huh, so the Rutgers staff and students who are fully jabbed and boosted in order to attend school don't trust the jab to keep them safe.

So nice of Covid to not get you in a dining hall, dorm, etc, but strike you down in the library or classrooms. Science!

1 posted on 10/05/2022 6:55:42 PM PDT by matt04
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And that after biden declared that Covid is over and the CDC even relaxed masking guidelines for healthcare settings.

Some people just live to fear. What paranoid hysteria.


2 posted on 10/05/2022 6:58:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: matt04

I hate that I even have to share a country with these pukes.

My niece goes to Rutgers and I’m sure she’s all in. Her parents have been telling her the planet is dying since she was born. No wonder so many kids are effed up.


3 posted on 10/05/2022 7:00:21 PM PDT by americas.best.days... ( Donald John Trump has pulled the sword from the stone.)
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To: matt04

4 posted on 10/05/2022 7:01:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: matt04

Rutgers?

Shut.

It.

Down.

There’s no useful life there.


5 posted on 10/05/2022 7:01:26 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: metmom

I read a comment from someone else that it like Japanese troops after WWII who refused to acknowledged that they lost for years and years.


6 posted on 10/05/2022 7:21:41 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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+1

Metrosexual Linuses who need their security face blankets.

Now THOSE are the real “bitter clingers”!


7 posted on 10/05/2022 7:30:14 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: matt04

mental illness and arrogance toward everything sane. The world is sick and getting sicker


8 posted on 10/05/2022 7:40:48 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: matt04

Universities are a complete disgrace.


9 posted on 10/05/2022 8:01:24 PM PDT by BrexitBen
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To: matt04

Just imagine voluntarily wearing one at this point, it boggles the mind. They maskers are a total disgrace and they are a true ongoing threat in my opinion. Enemies.


10 posted on 10/05/2022 9:19:09 PM PDT by toddausauras ( )
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To: matt04

Control devices.


11 posted on 10/05/2022 9:26:32 PM PDT by Allegra
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To: metmom

“Some people just live to fear.” True. And it is spiritual. Some people are not strong enough to be hopeful and brave. Masks are useless and vaccines are harmful. Period.


12 posted on 10/05/2022 9:48:38 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: toddausauras

I still see people wearing masks while walking alone outside in the sunshine and fresh air or while driving alone in their cars with windows rolled up.

The thing that angers me the most is when I see toddlers with masks pulled up to their ears and eyeballs.

Kids don’t need masks. Covid is not a danger to them nor are they a danger to anyone else.

Those poor kids are being brought up to live in bondage to fear.


13 posted on 10/06/2022 12:05:33 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: matt04

The fact that mandates have to be fought in a million different legal jurisdictions is very frustrating. Why could we find a no named judge in Hawaii who just made it illegal nationally? The left shackled Trump’s various initiatives that way.

Rutgers should rename itself to Howard Stern Hypochondriac U

ps

Rutgers used to produce good football teams.


14 posted on 10/06/2022 2:37:46 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul ("..)
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To: metmom

‘Live Free or Die’...heh.


15 posted on 10/06/2022 2:41:57 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: matt04

99.9% NATURAL RECOVERY RATE WITHOUT THE FAKE & DANGEROUS VACCINES


16 posted on 10/06/2022 2:45:39 AM PDT by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: toddausauras
We just flew home from Mexico yesterday and it did my heart good to see that 85% of the people in the Cancun airport were totally over the whole Covid thing. They had workers trying to block the escalators (leading to the Security checkpoint), insisting everyone needed a mask. Everyone just went around them. At the passport check, everyone was handed a mask & told they had to wear it thru security. Most folks immediately pulled it under their nose or chin, and about half of the security folks had done the same. Most took them off completely after retrieving their bags.

There were also a lot of workers holding up signs with a barcode that they were insisting everyone had to scan - it was related to covid, but I don't know the details. I assume it was for contact tracing or maybe for uploading negative test results for counties that still require that. I didn't see a single person approach those workers, and some of the workers were becoming pretty agitated - they were shouting that we couldn't board our plane without doing it. No one even flinched and all went well.

As we were waiting to board, I remarked to my husband that I think that most people are FINALLY over this crap.

17 posted on 10/06/2022 4:38:51 AM PDT by NoLongerTrappedInNY
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To: who knows what evil?

Well, they are free to live in bondage if they so choose.

Just as long as they don’t expect me to live in bondage to their fear and paranoia.


18 posted on 10/06/2022 5:24:28 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: matt04
I think I know what's going on here with these mask loving freaks.


19 posted on 10/06/2022 6:23:21 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm & GMO Free - some call us purebloods)
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To: matt04

Masks are now religious attire of the leftists


20 posted on 10/06/2022 6:28:15 AM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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