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UFA: Vax Mandate Would Cause Many Firefighter Exits

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 10/8/21

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro and Police Commissioner Dermot Shea Oct. 6 both endorsed a vaccine mandate because a substantial number of employees in each agency have yet to be inoculated, but the head of the Uniformed Firefighters Association warned that a substantial number of his members would quit their jobs rather than comply.

Both departments are operating under a protocol requiring those who are not vaccinated to submit to regular coronavirus testing protocol. The De Blasio administration has made vaccination mandatory for Department of Education employees and the state has done it for its health-care workers and employees of congregate-care facilities.

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