Pittsburgh Firefighters Union 'Considering' Legal Options After City Mandates COVID-19 Vaccinations For Employees
The mandate requires city of Pittsburgh employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 22.
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The mandate requires city of Pittsburgh employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Dec. 22.
Penn State has extended its vaccine requirement for employees at six of its Pennsylvania campuses.
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.
Allegheny County Sheriff's deputies will be required to get the coronavirus vaccine by Dec. 1 or face termination.
The union that represents corrections officers in Pennsylvania prisons wants a state court to intervene over the governor's recent mandate that they all get coronavirus vaccines or submit to weekly testing.
Southwestern Pennsylvanians support a mandatory mask requirement in schools but are cool to the idea of mandatory vaccines.
President Biden recently announced broad new vaccine requirements with the potential to affect approximately 100 million Americans once they go into effect.
In his most forceful pandemic actions and words, President Joe Biden on Thursday announced sweeping new federal vaccine requirements affecting as many as 100 million Americans in an all-out effort to increase COVID-19 vaccinations and curb the surging delta variant.
With the FDA's full approval of Pfizer's vaccine for COVID, vaccine mandates may become more prevalent in the the public and private sector.
Vaccination mandates are now being implemented across government and corporate America, but short of a national requirement, how effective can they be?
