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Biden s new vaccine requirement meets pushback from unions who helped elect him

Sarah Silbiger/UPI/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) A commitment to American labor helped fuel President Joe Biden’s bid for the White House as he promised to be “the most pro-union president you’ve ever seen.” It was an embrace that many of the major federations, associations, teamsters and brotherhoods in the nation requited by endorsing his candidacy. But the support for Biden’s leadership that united more than 50 union groups during the campaign threatened to splinter publicly this week, over mixed reception of his plan to require federal workers get the COVID-19 vaccine or face regular testing and other restrictions.

Vaccinated prisoners, unvaccinated guards illustrate Biden s tricky road | WKZO | Everything Kalamazoo

By Syndicated Content By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, grabbed national headlines in March 2020 after a COVID-19 outbreak killed at least eight inmates and sickened more than 100 people. Sixteen months later, about 70% of its inmates have been vaccinated against the coronavirus – a rate more than double the 34% of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staffers there who have taken the shot, according to Oakdale’s union leader Ronald Morris, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1007. The low rate reflects how responses to COVID-19 – whether getting vaccinated or wearing face masks to slow transmission – has turned into a partisan issue in the United States, with many Republicans rejecting both.

Vaccinated prisoners, unvaccinated guards illustrate Biden s tricky road

By Syndicated Content By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A federal prison in Oakdale, Louisiana, grabbed national headlines in March 2020 after a COVID-19 outbreak killed at least eight inmates and sickened more than 100 people. Sixteen months later, about 70% of its inmates have been vaccinated against the coronavirus – a rate more than double the 34% of Bureau of Prisons (BOP) staffers there who have taken the shot, according to Oakdale’s union leader Ronald Morris, president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 1007. The low rate reflects how responses to COVID-19 – whether getting vaccinated or wearing face masks to slow transmission – has turned into a partisan issue in the United States, with many Republicans rejecting both.

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