“We don’t fire them. They are the ones who are resigning, ”warned Democratic Mayor Eric Adams, issuing a new warning on Thursday. “We are very clear. People must be vaccinated if employed by the city […] they have to follow the rules put in place before (the arrival of) my team,” added the mayor, who succeeded Bill de Blasio on January 1.
The threat concerns employees who have already had their wages suspended since the obligation was in place and had until Friday to comply. To date, some 95% of the city’s 370,000 employees have received at least one dose of the vaccine. For their part, opponents of compulsory vaccination called on Friday morning for a new demonstration, in front of City Hall, New York City Hall.
The first city to require vaccination
New York City was one of the first in the United States, as early as last summer, to take action to push its city officials to get vaccinated. A strict vaccination obligation was then imposed on teachers, then, from November 1, on police and firefighters.
Like wearing a mask, mandatory vaccination is a divisive issue in the United States, where some conservative states have instead taken steps to ban it.
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