Chicago firefighters ordered to comply with vaccine mandate

[TexasTowelie]

CHICAGO An arbitrator has ruled that several unions representing Chicago firefighters and other city employees must follow Mayor Lori Lightfoot's COVID-19 vaccination policy.

The ruling means that the union employees will lose pay if they do not receive a first shot by Dec. 31. They must get a second shot by Jan. 31 if they choose a two-dose vaccine.

The ruling issued Wednesday applies to the Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2, the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 21, Service Employees International Union Local 73, Teamsters Local 700 and Coalition of Unionized Public Employees.

The ruling does not apply to members of the Chicago Fraternal Order of Police, which has been engaged in a bitter battle with the mayor over the mandate. A Cook County judge suspended the Dec. 31 vaccination deadline for police and sent the issue to arbitration, which begins Dec. 27.

Read more at: https://www.macon.com/news/article256661922.html

[jaxexpat]

1. Originally from Kentucky, basketball is in my DNA. But........

I always hated the point in nearly every game where the losing team intentionally fouls to delay the game, playing the clock rules for a missed free-throw or scoring turn-over. It rarely works but remains the go-to technique for creating the potential of pulling victory from the jaws of defeat.

It's all about the clock and the advantage of delay. An advantage not earned by effort, skill or rightness of purpose but from the entropy inherent in delay. Thus it goes, justice delayed is justice denied or, in this case, vaccination deferred is death by virus.

[BunnyMcGee]

2. Good analogy