Tornado Alley (PROG)

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The unions have no say or right to be at the table in this situation. A union represents it's due paying members for grievances concerning job safety, hours and wages and job duties. Not personal choices to do the job.
So, an officer makes a personal choice to only do one traffic stop a day and spend the rest of the day walking around the park? Is that what the union is supposed to do? Decide a cop can make his own work agenda and demand union reps? Is it also an employees personal choice not to give a routine mandatory urine drug test that all law enforcement agrees to when they hire in?

When one hires into any public type position, clerk, reasturant, driver, cop, fireman... any job that puts one out in close contact all day every day with the public, you can bet that employer has liabilities it has to be concerned about and that their employees are protected in cases of a pandemic as well as their customers are protected from their employees NOT being protected and potentially suing them into oblivion.

An employee is an extension of a company, including the employee's potential to inflict harm to the public. One employee proven to have given a deadly virus to a customer who dies can get the company closed down for good. It's more than the employees 'right'. It's bigger than the individual themselves.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/02/nypd-unpaid-leave-vaccine-mandate/

Last week, a judge denied a request from the largest police union in New York City, the Police Benevolent Association (PBA), to temporarily halt de Blasio’s order requiring all municipal employees to receive at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine or face unpaid leave on Nov. 1.

The union says that taking the coronavirus vaccine should be a personal choice. It has said the mandate is not sufficiently clear and does not leave enough room for exemptions.