{"id":605935,"date":"2021-07-29T13:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605935"},"modified":"2021-07-29T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T17:20:48","slug":"not-the-role-of-the-federal-government-postal-workers-union-with-nearly-217000-members-slams-biden-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-the-role-of-the-federal-government-postal-workers-union-with-nearly-217000-members-slams-biden-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not The Role Of The Federal Government\u2019: Postal Workers Union With Nearly 217,000 Members Slams Biden Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnot-the-role-of-the-federal-government-postal-workers-union-with-nearly-217000-members-slams-biden-vaccine-mandate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=605935&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>One of the largest labor unions representing federal workers, strongly criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s reported plans to soon issue a vaccine mandate.<\/p>\n<p>The American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which <a href=\"https:\/\/olmsapps.dol.gov\/query\/orgReport.do?rptId=746768&amp;rptForm=LM2Form\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">represents<\/a> 216,797 federal workers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apwu.org\/news\/apwu-statement-mandatory-vaccination-federal-employees\">announced<\/a> its opposition to a mandate forcing its members to get the coronavirus vaccine. The APWU also demanded that Biden\u2019s administration negotiates with union leadership before issuing any mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile the APWU leadership continues to encourage postal workers to voluntarily get vaccinated, it is not the role of the federal government to mandate vaccinations for the employees we represent,\u201d the union said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time the APWU opposes the mandating of COVID-19 vaccinations in relation to U.S. postal workers,\u201d the statement continued. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/28\/new-york-city-bill-de-blasio-coronavirus-vaccine-mandate-unions\/\">(RELATED: Some NYC Unions Come Out Against Vaccine Mandate For City Employees)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Biden is slated to unveil an updated White House plan to get more Americans vaccinated and slow the spread of the delta variant of coronavirus, <a href=\"https:\/\/factba.se\/biden\/calendar\">according<\/a> to his daily schedule. The president is expected to announce a mandate requiring all federal employees to get vaccinated during his remarks, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/07\/27\/politics\/vaccine-mandate-for-federal-employees-under-consideration\/index.html\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7248075\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"34\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7248075\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7248075\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"President Joe Biden speaks at a truck facility on Wednesday in Macungie, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1331154573-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7248075\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Joe Biden speaks at a truck facility on Wednesday in Macungie, Pennsylvania. (Michael M. Santiago\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>In addition to the APWU, several government worker\u2019s unions have privately resisted Biden\u2019s plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/26\/medical-groups-hospital-vaccine-mandates-american-medical-association-aarp-houston\/\">mandate vaccinations<\/a>, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/28\/vaccine-mandates-labor-biden-501123\">reported<\/a>. Labor leaders who were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/21\/pro-union-labor-laws-joe-biden-promised-pass-president\/\">key to getting the president elected<\/a> reportedly clashed with White House officials during behind-closed-doors discussions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re not doing any mandates,\u201d International Association of Fire Fighters spokesperson Tim Burn told Politico. \u201cWe\u2019re not advocating any mandates for vaccination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/joe-biden-considering-vaccine-mandate-federal-employees\/\">hinted<\/a> Tuesday that his administration was preparing to force workers employed by the federal government to get vaccinated as a result of increasing case numbers driven by the delta variant. He recently <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/joe-biden-current-pandemic-among-unvaccinated-misinformation-facebook-killing-people\/\">suggested<\/a> there was only a pandemic \u201camong the unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/27\/cdc-changes-guidance-vaccinated-americans-normal-life\/\">changed<\/a> its mask mandate again Tuesday, recommending both unvaccinated and vaccinated individuals wear masks in regions with high spread.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are not vaccinated, please take the Delta variant seriously,\u201d CDC Director Rochelle Walensky <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/briefing-room\/press-briefings\/2021\/07\/22\/press-briefing-by-white-house-covid-19-response-team-and-public-health-officials-46\/\">said<\/a> during a press briefing last week. \u201cThis virus has no incentive to let up, and it remains in search of the next vulnerable person to infect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_dailytrendscases\">reported<\/a> more than 80,000 new coronavirus cases for the first since February. The U.S. has averaged just 608,380 vaccinations per day over the last several days compared to the average of 3.4 million it hit in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/us\/covid-19-vaccine-doses.html\">according<\/a> to a New York Times database.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the largest labor unions representing federal workers, strongly criticized President Joe Biden\u2019s reported plans to soon issue a vaccine mandate.The American Postal Workers Union (APWU), which represents 216,797 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}