Mayor Bill de Blasio has struck a deal with four city unions — including the largest in the Big Apple and sanitation workers — to …
Mayor Bill de Blasio has struck a deal with four city unions — including the largest in the Big Apple and sanitation workers — to allow more time for unvaccinated workers to apply for exemptions from his COVID-19 vaccine mandate, city officials announced. Notably absent from the deal are the unions that represent the FDNY and EMS workers, which have vehemently opposed de Blasio’s executive order requiring city employees to get the jab or go out on unpaid leave. The deal — announced Thursday afternoon and signed by the DC 37, Teamsters Local 237, Uniformed Sanitationmen’s Association Local 831 and SEIU Local 300 — allows workers to apply for a special accommodation from the vaccine for religious or medical reasons until the end-of-day Friday. Those employees will be allowed to work with pay while those applications are pending. But if they are denied, they will be placed on unpaid leave if they choose to appeal, the city officials said.
