{"id":606294,"date":"2021-07-29T18:06:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-29T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=606294"},"modified":"2021-07-29T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T22:06:14","slug":"top-teachers-unions-refuse-vaccination-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-teachers-unions-refuse-vaccination-requirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Teachers\u2019 Unions Refuse Vaccination Requirement"},"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\">12<\/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%2Ftop-teachers-unions-refuse-vaccination-requirement%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=606294&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/open-graph-fallback.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div readability=\"28.389743589744\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/\">Coronavirus<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten previously backed mandates<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/jack-beyrer\/\" title=\"Posts by Jack Beyrer\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Jack Beyrer<\/a> \u2022 July 29, 2021 5:50 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"59.074798619102\">\n<p>Two of the country\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 unions refuse to mandate COVID-19 vaccinations for their members, even as public schools require vaccinations for their students.<\/p>\n<p>The National Education Association (NEA) and American Federation of Teachers (AFT) are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/28\/vaccine-mandates-labor-biden-501123\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pushing<\/a> against mandatory teacher vaccinations as the 2021-22 school year approaches, instead asking for weekly testing and other alternatives. But public universities such as the University of Indiana and California state schools are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/19\/education\/vaccine-mandate-indiana-university.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">already<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2021\/07\/27\/college-covid-vaccines-require\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">forcing<\/a> students to vaccinate before returning to campus for instruction.<\/p>\n<p>The move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/teachers-union-would-support-teacher-vaccination-requirement-a9d53de8-6a97-4d7f-9b3e-79e97fbdf7f9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contradicts<\/a> remarks made in September 2020 by AFT president Randi Weingarten. At the time, she said she supported mandating COVID-19 vaccines for teachers once they were approved and made readily available.<\/p>\n<p>The powerful teachers&#8217; unions are breaking with labor leadership in their approach. AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka said Tuesday he supports a vaccine mandate for union workers. Other public sector organizations <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2021\/07\/26\/mandatory-vaccinations-urged-health-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">advocate<\/a> for mandatory vaccinations, such as the Department of Veterans Affairs and local governments in New York and California. The department\u2019s decision affects more than 100,000 frontline workers alone, while growing demands from New York and California governments for public sector workers to get vaccinated touches more than two million.<\/p>\n<p>Weingarten <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/coronavirus\/teachers-unions-rebuff-trump-push-to-reopen-schools\/\">came under fire<\/a> from Republicans last summer for arguing that opening schools in the fall would be &#8220;very dangerous.&#8221; After strongly supporting a return to in-person schooling this fall, she backtracked on Wednesday, saying the union would &#8220;try to open up schools&#8221; but that new CDC guidance had thrown the group a &#8220;curveball.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coronavirus American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten previously backed mandates Jack Beyrer \u2022 July 29, 2021 5:50 pm Two of the country\u2019s largest teachers\u2019 unions refuse to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-606294","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\/606294","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606294\/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=606294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}