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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]As the statement from the AFT that I posted earlier demonstrates, the organization supports negotiating a vaccine mandate. I have removed the post that wrongly stated that the AFT has "expressly come out against mandatory vaccination". I also removed the responses to that false post. I have repeatedly asked the poster whose post I removed to stop posting misinformation so it is unfortunate that this continues.
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Here is what Politico says:

“ While the AFT, for example, rejected the idea of compulsory vaccination for members, it did laud the update issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tuesday recommending that both vaccinated and unvaccinated Americans who live in areas where Covid-19 transmission is “high” or “substantial” wear masks indoors.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/28/vaccine-mandates-labor-biden-501123

If your reply to this is “Oh, the unions just want to bargain over it locally, they support mandatory vaccination!” … I’d like to know how you reach that conclusion. 
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That was a poor bit of reporting by Politico. Had you read further, you would have seen that they got a further towards the truth later in the article. But, I came to my conclusion by reading the actual statement put out by the ATF rather than Politico's misleading summary of it:

[quote]“More than 90 percent of the AFT’s educators and school staff, and nearly 80 percent of our healthcare professionals, are vaccinated against COVID-19, and those numbers are only increasing. The COVID-19 vaccine is the most important tool we have to protect ourselves; our families; and the students, patients and communities we serve. As the delta variant spreads and COVID-19 cases rise in unvaccinated communities, we are reminded just how unpredictable this virus is and how critical vaccinations are to keeping our schools open for in-person learning and preventing our hospitals from becoming overwhelmed. With ICUs once again filling up and many reaching capacity, our nurses and healthcare professionals in particular are exhausted and anxious at the prospect of another COVID-19 surge.

“In order for everyone to feel safe and welcome in their workplaces, vaccinations must be negotiated between employers and workers, not coerced. We believe strongly that everyone should get vaccinated unless they have a medical or religious exception, and [b]that this should be a mandatory subject of negotiation for employers[/b] to keep their employees safe and build trust. But healthcare professionals are concerned that mandating vaccines outside contract negotiation will only result in more people leaving the bedside at a time when staffing levels are already low from the trauma of the past year. This makes vaccine advocacy more important than ever, and medical professionals must be on the front lines of correcting the rampant vaccine disinformation campaign that is costing American lives.”[/quote]

The bolding is mine. As you can read, the ATF strongly supports vaccinations and believes that mandatory vaccinations should be subject to negotiation.

https://www.aft.org/press-release/aft-president-randi-weingarten-says-healthcare-worker-vaccines-are-critical

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