{"id":991217,"date":"2021-11-09T19:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=991217"},"modified":"2021-11-09T19:14:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:14:23","slug":"federal-workers-union-urges-biden-to-delay-covid-vaccine-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-workers-union-urges-biden-to-delay-covid-vaccine-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Workers&#039; Union Urges Biden to Delay COVID Vaccine Deadline"},"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\">20<\/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%2Ffederal-workers-union-urges-biden-to-delay-covid-vaccine-deadline%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=991217&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\/11\/GettyImages-1200174865-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The American Federation of Government Employees,&nbsp;which counts roughly 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers, has asked President Joe Biden to delay the deadline for federal workers to receive the coronavirus vaccine from November 22nd to January 4th.<\/p>\n<p>The plea comes after the deadline&nbsp;for federal contractor employees to undergo vaccination was pushed back from December 8th to January 4th.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThis double standard has caused confusion and distress among federal employees due to disparate treatment and incongruent deadlines for people who perform the government\u2019s work in the same settings,\u201d the union\u2019s president, Everett Kelley, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afge.org\/globalassets\/documents\/generalreports\/coronavirus\/2021\/harmonizing-vaccination-deadlines-letter-11-9-21.pdf\">wrote<\/a> in a letter Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is inexcusable that contractors are being given the entire holiday season to meet the mandates, while federal employees continue to be subject to the November 22 deadline,\u201d&nbsp;Kelley added. \u201cThe effect upon morale of federal employees being subject to possible discipline at this time of the year cannot be overstated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Jeff Zients<\/span>&nbsp;has said federal employees who chose to buck the mandate will receive \u201ccounseling\u201d and could later be suspended and even terminated.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important to remember that this is a process and the point here is to get people vaccinated, not to punish them,\u201d&nbsp;<span class=\"rollover-people\" data-behavior=\"rolloverpeople\">Zients said last month.<\/span> \u201cAgencies will not be removing employees from federal service until after they\u2019ve gone through a process of education and counseling.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A federal appeals court on Saturday temporarily stayed the Biden administration\u2019s mandate directing private-sector workers to get vaccinated against&nbsp;<a class=\"tpstyle\" title=\"COVID-19\" href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/COVID-19\/\">COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The three-judge panel in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily blocked the new federal mandate for companies with more than 100 employees to require their workers to get vaccinated, or submit to weekly tests and masking. Those that defy the rules face fines as high as $14,000 per violation.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Biden administration&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2021\/11\/04\/covid-vaccine-rules-workers\/8701636034392\/\">rolled out the mandate<\/a>&nbsp;as its latest effort to goad tens of millions of unvaccinated workers to get the jab. The requirement was scheduled to take effect Jan. 4 and would affect about 84 million workers.<\/p>\n<p><em>The UPI contributed to this report.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of Government Employees,\u00a0which counts roughly 700,000 federal and D.C. government workers, has asked President Joe Biden to delay the deadline for federal workers to receive the coronavirus &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"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-991217","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\/991217","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\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991217\/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=991217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}