Mayor Adams said lifting the vaccine mandate for professional athletes and performers was an economic necessity and denied succumbing to pressure from lobbyists — including former City Council Speaker Johnson, who was paid $18K by a Brooklyn Nets attorney.
“We have been suing the city for months over its arbitrary and capricious vaccine mandate,” said Pat Lynch, the head of the Police Benevolent Association, the union that represents NYPD officers, in a statement Thursday. “While celebrities were in lockdown, New York City police officers were on the street throughout the pandemic working without adequate PPE and in many cases contracting and recovering from COVID themselves. They don’t deserve to be treated like second-class citizens now.
The head of the city's largest public sector union demanded that members who were terminated over the vaccine mandate be reinstated. “These are the same essential workers who kept the City going during the height of the pandemic," said Henry Garrido, the executive director of DC 37, in a statement. "They deserve the respect and dignity of having their jobs back. They deserve to be treated equally to their private sector counterparts. We demand that those who lost their job over the mandate be reinstated.”
The city's teachers union likewise accused Adams of a double standard for "people of influence" and in a statement said it was "ready to discuss how exceptions could be applied to city workers."
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