Teachers union president Weingarten calls for vaccine mandate for teachers
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American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten said Sunday that she wants the union to support mandatory coronavirus vaccinations for teachers.
"Vaccines are the single most important way of dealing with COVID," Weingarten said. "Since 1850 we’ve dealt with vaccines in schools, it’s not a new thing to have vaccines in schools. And I think that, on a personal matter, as a matter of personal conscience, I think that we need to be working with our employers – not opposing them – on vaccine mandates." Weingarten said that this week she is bringing union leadership together to revisit their previous policy of voluntarily vaccination, even though she says that 90% of her teacher members have been vaccinated already.More Related News