New York mayor’s office reaches vaccine mandate deals with 20 unions but not NYPD or FDNY
The agreements with the unions enable these metropolis workers to hunt exemptions on non secular or medical grounds and require routine Covid-19 testing within the interim.
The 20 unions comprise about 96,000 metropolis workers.
The mayor’s workplace supplied to discount with all 42 unions within the metropolis, Feyer stated.
The New York Metropolis Division of Schooling and New York Metropolis Well being and Hospitals beforehand reached offers with unions over the vaccine mandate and have been excluded from union agreements the town introduced Thursday.
Town stated Friday it’s nonetheless negotiating with the opposite unions that make up the Municipal Labor Committee, a consortium of unions representing workers of the town’s numerous businesses.
Particulars of the deal — exemptions and testing
Workers in 20 unions who filed for a medical or non secular exemptions earlier than November 2 will stay on the town’s payroll and need to undergo weekly coronavirus testing, in keeping with a press release launched Thursday by the mayor’s workplace.
Workers granted exemptions must proceed to undergo common testing, whereas these denied exemption and searching for enchantment can be stored on payroll, the announcement stated.
Metropolis workers searching for non secular or medical exemptions between November 3 and November 5 will even be stored on payroll whereas awaiting the willpower of their exemption standing, nevertheless, they won’t be stored on payroll in the event that they then enchantment, in keeping with the town’s assertion.
Municipal workers within the 20 unions positioned on go away with out pay have the choice to voluntarily go away their jobs whereas nonetheless retaining medical insurance by means of June 30. The workers should still choose to increase their go away till June 30, although they need to additionally comply with voluntarily go away their locations of employment, thereby waiving any rights to problem their lodging verdict ought to they fail to be vaccinated by the identical date.
Unvaccinated workers who determine to obtain the Covid-19 vaccine are permitted to return to work after one dose, in keeping with the mayor’s workplace.
The newest vaccination numbers
De Blasio’s workplace says as of Thursday, 92% of the town’s complete workforce — together with members of the NYC Division of Schooling and NYC Well being and Hospitals — had acquired a minimum of one dose of the coronavirus vaccine whereas 18,600 metropolis municipal members have been nonetheless unvaccinated.
The fie division’s EMS staff are 90% vaccinated, whereas the general fee for the FDNY (together with firefighters, EMS, and civilian staff) is 84%, primarily based on information launched by the mayor’s workplace.
Fireplace Commissioner Daniel Nigro and the 2 hearth unions couldn’t be reached for remark on the time of this writing.
Each the sanitation division and police division have a vaccination fee of 86%.
A spokesman for NYC mayor-elect Eric Adams stated Adams “has frequently stated that it’s important the mayor and unions come to the desk to make sure vaccine mandate particulars are determined collectively — and so he’s glad (de Blasio) and people unions reached an settlement.”
Spokesperson Evan Thies added the mayor-elect “strongly encourages the mayor to now sit down with the hearth and police unions to do the identical.”
