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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
So you believe that AFT is *in favor* of mandatory vaccination? What evidence do you have to support that?

I’ve explained like 10 times that “subject of mandatory bargaining” does not mean AFT is in favor of the subject. [/quote]

First of all, the AFT will not negotiate anything. Contracts are between union locals and their various managements. In the case of DC, that is the WTU and DCPS. So the AFT wants WTU and DCPS to hash this issue out rather than it being decided by edict. If those two parties did come to agreement on mandatory vaccinations, then the AFT would obviously support it. If the AFT actually opposed mandates as you seem to believe, it would just say so.

Moreover, you have absolutely lost track of the actual goal we are trying to achieve. I think what everyone wants is a safe environment for students, staff, and teachers. The AFT and the WTU and both absolutely clear that vaccinations are a key -- perhaps the key -- element of safety. However, it may well be that vaccination rates are already high enough that they are no longer even that important of an item. Or, perhaps a mandate is not necessary to reach the vaccination goal. At any rate, rather than fixating on a mandate, you should focus on the level of vaccinations and how best to reach any holdouts. That might be a mandate, but it might not be.

The WTU has made a wide-ranging proposal to DCPS and hopefully that is being negotiated now. There are a host of issues beyond vaccinations that need to be worked out. 
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you know what would be great to assess vaccination rates? data collection from teachers on their vaccination status.  oh wait … WTU got in the way of that too. Instead of allowing data collection to go forward at a time when DCPS could do something with the data, it’s now 5 weeks until school starts and we have no data, and time is basically out for unvaxxed teachers to be fully vaccinated before school.[/quote]

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