Allegheny County Police And Corrections Officers Unions Sue Over COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
By Andy Sheehan
October 19, 2021 at 5:50 am
KDKA Pittsburgh
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – Across Allegheny County, public employees are fighting vaccine mandates but none as hard as those in law enforcement, which has suffered some of the highest losses from the disease.
The unions representing the county police and the corrections officers have gone to court to block the county’s order that all employees be vaccinated or be fired. ...
Come Dec. 1, all county employees must show proof of vaccination or face firing. But late last week, the unions representing the county police and the corrections officers at the jail filed for injunctions, calling the vaccines experimental and unproven with unknown side effects and saying any mandatory order must be negotiated.
“The association argues the county is required to rescind the COVID-19 vaccination mandate unless and until it satisfies its collective bargaining obligation…and cease and desist from engaging in such unlawful actions,” reads the lawsuit. ...
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