Sunday, October 31, 2021

Judge Blocks Biden Administration from Firing Unvaccinated Civilian and Military Employees; Border Patrol Union on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: ‘We Cannot Afford to Lose Employees’ During ‘Largest Border Crisis in Nation’s History’, and other C-Virus related stories

Judge Blocks Biden Administration from Firing Unvaccinated Civilian and Military Employees:
Federal workers who are fighting President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate on the grounds of religion have won a round in court.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Columbia on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order that protects military and civilian employees from being fired while their requests for religious exemptions to Biden’s vaccine mandate are being heard, according to Fox News.
“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” Kollar-Kotelly ordered.
The judge also ruled that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals,” according to Fox News.
The court further ordered that Biden and the top administration officials named in the lawsuit file a notice Friday to indicate whether they will agree that no plaintiff will be disciplined or terminated until there is a final ruling on the question of religious exemptions. --->READ MORE HERE
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Border Patrol Union on Biden’s Vaccine Mandate: ‘We Cannot Afford to Lose Employees’ During ‘Largest Border Crisis in Nation’s History’:
If President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate is successful, the southern border of the United States could be in even greater peril than it has already been since he took office, according to National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd.
“We cannot afford at this time — during the biggest crisis as far as border security goes — we can’t afford to lose any of our employees,” Judd said during a virtual press conference with Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Thursday.
Judd said 6,000 U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) employees have already asked to be exempted from Biden’s mandate.
“If we lose even a couple of those people, it’s a couple too many as far as the border goes today,” he emphasized.
Judd was one of several union representatives invited to speak at the press conference, which was held to discuss Sen. Marsha Blackburn’s new proposed bill called the Keeping Our COVID-19 Heroes Employed Act. The legislation, which she officially announced Tuesday, would require any entity, including the federal government, public and private federal contractors, and private and public entities receiving federal funds to provide an exemption to essential workers, as they are define in their respective states, from taking the Chinese coronavirus vaccine.
“Our essential workers are true heroes. For over 18 months, essential workers showed up to serve and protect their communities. Businesses across the country are desperate for workers and we are in the midst of a supply chain crisis,” Sen. Blackburn said in a statement. “There are more than 10.4 million open jobs across the country, and now President Biden wants to fire even more workers. Getting vaccinated is a choice that should be made between a patient and their doctor. No one should be forced by Joe Biden to be fired or get jabbed.” --->READ MORE HERE
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