Tue Feb 15, 2022 – 5:27 pm EST
NEW YORK (LifeSiteNews) – The Big Apple fired 1,430 city employees this week for refusing to comply with the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, with thousands more public jobs hanging in the balance.
Yahoo reported that the terminations include 36 workers with the police department, 25 with the fire department, and 914 working in public education. Most of the fired workers had gone without pay since November. Almost 10,000 more jobs are potentially on the chopping block, though appeals for exemptions for medical and religious reasons remain pending.
Vaccine mandates became a source of major contention for public employees under former Democrat Mayor Bill de Blasio, and continue to be so under his successor, Eric Adams. But Adams has attempted to put a positive spin on the situation with his rhetoric, claiming “they’re not being terminated, they are quitting.”
“Our goal was always to vaccinate, not terminate, and city workers stepped up and met the goal placed before them,” the Democrat mayor says. “I’m grateful to all the city workers who continue to serve New Yorkers and ‘Get Stuff Done’ for the greatest city in the world.”
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