July 26, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — Teamsters Local 743 — part of a labor union with 1.3 million members — has filed a federal complaint to stop a COVID jab mandate affecting its members, which is being implemented by the healthcare company working with the union members.
Local 743 has asked a federal court in Illinois to stop the Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Health and Welfare Pension Funds from deducting paid-time off from members who refuse to take the experimental COVID jab.
The Funds administer the retirement and healthcare plans for Teamster locals. They wanted to compel the employees of those Funds to receive vaccination against the coronavirus as part of returning to in-person work.
Union contracts often require employers to negotiate changes to employee contracts.
The new policy, which was not agreed to by the Teamsters Local, mandates that if a “[union] member is not vaccinated and does not have a religious or medical accommodation, he or she will lose paid time off, and will be subject to disciplinary procedures (including termination) once all the specified benefit time expires.”
Members of the union, which include warehouse workers and mail handlers, have a number of objections to the vaccine,
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