{"id":950517,"date":"2021-11-01T16:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=950517"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:43:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T20:43:51","slug":"judge-grants-big-legal-victory-for-police-unions-against-chicagos-vaccine-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-grants-big-legal-victory-for-police-unions-against-chicagos-vaccine-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Grants Big Legal Victory For Police Unions Against Chicago\u2019s Vaccine Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fjudge-grants-big-legal-victory-for-police-unions-against-chicagos-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=950517&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><\/div>\n<p>An Illinois judge put a hold on the vaccine requirement Monday for the Chicago Police Department through Dec. 31.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Raymond Mitchell granted a <a href=\"https:\/\/news.wttw.com\/sites\/default\/files\/article\/file-attachments\/FOP%20v.%20City%20of%20Chicago%2011.1.21%20Order.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">temporary restraining order<\/a> sought by police unions that the city cannot fire employees who do not receive the coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year. The order is meant to allow the unions to address their grievances through arbitration with the city.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3684210526316\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">BREAKING: A Cook County judge has suspended the requirement that all Chicago police officers be vaccinated by the end of the year. A major legal victory for Chicago\u2019s police unions.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Patrick Smith (@pksmid) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pksmid\/status\/1455193715253907460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mitchell ruled that the city\u2019s deference to the \u201cobey now, grieve later\u201d maxim in labor law is not applicable in this scenario, because once officers are vaccinated, they cannot be unvaccinated, and therefore they would have no grievance by the Dec. 31 deadline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn award of back pay or reinstatement cannot undo a vaccine,\u201d Mitchell wrote. \u201cNothing can. If that aspect of the City\u2019s policy was found to violate the collective bargaining agreements, the arbitral process could not restore the parties to their original positions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Obey now, grieve later\u2019 would be transformed into \u2018obey now and forever\u2019 \u2013 without a meaningful opportunity to arbitrate.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/21\/joe-biden-first-responders-police-refuse-vaccine-mandates-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Biden Says First Responders, Police Who Refuse Vaccine Mandates Should Be Fired)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not credit any suggestion that the City\u2019s vaccination policy is anything other than an effort to safeguard the health of its employees. Likewise, I do not accept that the police unions\u2019 grievances and alternate proposals are anything other than an effort to protect their members,\u201d Mitchell wrote, noting that while public health is of concern, \u201cthe principal risk to those who are unvaccinated is to themselves and to others who choose to be unvaccinated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ruling does, however, allow the city\u2019s mandate for other city employees to remain in place and allows the city to discipline officers who do not disclose their vaccination status or submit to testing twice a week.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Mayor Lori Lightfoot <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/19\/lori-lightfoot-police-union-induce-insurrection-vaccine-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">scolded<\/a> the police union in October for allegedly trying to \u201cinduce an insurrection\u201d over the mandate after the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) Chicago Lodge President John Catanzara advised officers to refuse the mandate. Both FOP and Lightfoot have sued each other over the mandate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe that the FOP leadership is trying to foment an illegal work stopping strike, pure and simple,\u201d Lightfoot said at a press conference. \u201cWe\u2019ve laid that out in the materials, and we\u2019re not having that. The contract is clear. It\u2019s been known for a long time. The police unions are not authorized to strike. It\u2019s in their collective bargaining agreement. It\u2019s in state law.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.289592760181\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot says leadership at the Fraternal Order of Police are trying to \u201cinduce an insurrection\u201d against vaccine mandates <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TlKKqp9Uye\">pic.twitter.com\/TlKKqp9Uye<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1450184956718817286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve seen from the FOP and particularly its leadership is a lot of misinformation, a lot of half true and frankly flat-out lies in order to induce an insurrection, and we\u2019re not having that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Illinois judge put a hold on the vaccine requirement Monday for the Chicago Police Department through Dec. 31.Judge Raymond Mitchell granted a temporary restraining order sought by police unions &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-950517","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\/950517","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\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950517\/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=950517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}