The decision affects public employees including teachers, police officers, and other city workers, de Blasio said.
DC 37, New York City’s largest municipal public employee union representing 150,000 members, said some measures would need to be addressed before mandatory testing is instated.
“If City Hall intends to test our members weekly, they must first meet us at the table to bargain,” DC 37 Executive Director Henry Garrido said in a statement to BuzzFeed News. “While we encourage everyone to get vaccinated and support measures to ensure our members’ health and wellbeing, weekly testing is clearly subject to mandatory bargaining. New York City is a union town and that cannot be ignored.”
Labor Relations Commissioner Renee Campion said Monday the city has the right as an employer to require employees to comply.
“If they can’t be at work because they refuse to comply, they will be on leave without pay,” Campion said. “We are giving people, obviously, the two options, which are the vaccination and also the weekly testing. So, they do have a choice. The employees do have a choice.”
About 4.5 million New York City residents, or roughly 54% of the city’s population, have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
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