Fired NYC Workers Have to Re-Apply for Jobs

New York City Mayor Eric Adams February 10, 2010, the City of San Francisco defended the firing city employees who refused comply with COVID-19. vaccine mandateArguments that it “just wasn’t right” They will decline to have the jab.

Appearing on Caribbean Power Jam Radio’s “The Reset Show,” Adams was asked what would happen to the nearly 2,000 government employees who lost their jobs due to the vaccine requirement. Adams replied that they would have to reapply for the jobs. “just like everyone else.”

“They can reapply for their jobs,” J.R. Giddings interviewed Adams about the fact that many city employees had taken the vaccine despite their initial refusal.

More than 96 percent city workers and over 80 percent of residents were vaccinated against COVID-19 according to city hall. They cited high vaccination rates as the reason the jabs weren’t mandatory.

“If we didn’t have that vaccine and we didn’t have those mandates, we would have lost so many more lives,” Adams said. “And so New York has stepped up. They said, ‘We don’t want to do it. I don’t want to get injected. I don’t want to do this. This is new.’ But they stepped up anyway.”

Adams observed that while New Yorkers may resent being told what to do, their culture has evolved to accommodate government mandates.

“No New Yorker wants anyone telling them anything,” He said. “That’s just who we are. We don’t want to be mandated. We don’t want anyone to tell us to put on a mask. That’s just who we are. So that was a cultural shift in our mindset to say, ‘We’re fighting this dangerous virus.’”

Adams stated that New Yorkers, who rejected the cultural shift but remained unvaccinated throughout, said exactly what they had been doing “just wasn’t right.”

“And so, those who made the determination that, ‘No, I still want to come into a work environment and I’m not going to be vaccinated;’ ‘No, I want to still ride the trains;’ ‘I want to do whatever I want.’ That just wasn’t right,” The mayor spoke. “They made a decision and the law was on our side that said we could mandate, and so they were removed.”

Adams suggested that Adams might have to again make public health mandates for the city and firefighters who don’t comply.

“Now that we’re seeing a normalization of COVID, there may be another time that we’re going to have to do mandates again because these viruses are not going away,” He said it to the radio host.

The mayor’s comments come while fired unvaccinated city workers continue to fight in court against what they see as unfair dismissal.

In October 2022A Staten Island judge ordered that New York City workers who had been terminated be reinstated. Since then, the city appealed against the ruling.

“We shouldn’t be penalizing the people who showed up to work, at great risk to themselves and their families, while we were locked down,” Staten Island Supreme Court Justice Ralph Porzio wrote, ruling that the city’s public health department overstepped its authority when issuing the mandate.

In January, however, a judge from the state Supreme Court took office. A statewide mandate for vaccines was struck down These requirements were imposed on health workers. “null, void, and of no effect.”

“In true Orwellian fashion, the Respondents acknowledge then-current COVID-19 shots do not prevent transmission,” The court opinion was written by Gerard Neri, a New York Supreme Court Judge.

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