Largest US Health Care Union Will 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.

“said hospital systems don’t have the right to mandate vaccines for employees”

Of course they don’t. Nobody believes they do.

But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment. Hell, they can make abstinence from Nicotine a condition of employment, or Flu vaccine.

But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment,,,,,

At the hospital where I worked they ‘encouraged” you to get the flu vaccine. If you declined, you had to wear mask, gloves, and gown in the clinical area.

We all cracked up when we saw the CEO of the hospital walking through the clinical area with mask, gloves, and gown on.

Well, well, well ping.

FINALLY!!

After SO many BigPharma owned hospital systems demanded how many employees take these risky shots??

Houston Methodist CEO probably just cr@pped his massive bedpan.

Next up, AIRLINE unions, please!

Now, where are all of those FR VPs insisting these employer/hospital mandates, of these EXPERIMENTAL, UNPROVEN and seemingly dangerous shots, was perfectly fine?

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I’ve had to take various vaccines in the past in order to travel to or live in overseas locations. Even as a military brat kid, we had to get certain shots when we were stationed in Italy. No big deal.

But there’s something about the zealous and frenzied manner in which the government and media are pushing this vaccine that raises my skepticism. They’re trying to force it and they shouldn’t be doing that.

Kudos to any organization who is fighting this.

But they do have the right to make it a condition of employment. Hell, they can make abstinence from Nicotine a condition of employment, or Flu vaccin

Not really. They can set workplace conditions, but anything which sets conditions outside of the workplace and work hours, they have no right to set.

Else, let management be responsible for paying employees for 168 hours each week, including vacation. Mask wearing and hand washing are fine. Stay home when sick is fine.

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