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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
I think for reasons that are not clear to me, you are really invested in conveying that WTU is not against mandatory vaccination. 
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I am invested in a factual discussion. You, on the other hand, are invested in maligning the WTU and are happy to use falsehoods and misinformation to do it. Your initial claim was that the WTU opposes mandatory vaccination. Yet, you have no factual basis for that suggestion. You claim that a willingness to negotiate a mandate is actually opposition to a mandate -- again, with no factual basis. DCPS has not even proposed a mandate so the WTU's position doesn't even matter at this point. Yet, here you are spending page after page attacking the WTU when the WTU hasn't even been asked to do what you want them to do.

If your concern was about our children having a safe environment for learning, there are a lot of other things on which you could focus. But, it appears your concerns are limited to criticizing the WTU.

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ok Jeff. It seems like no matter how many times I give my actually informed interpretation of what “mandatory subject for bargaining” means - you refuse to listen. And you also refuse to listen to other posters who have explained the same thing to you. And you refuse to engage with all the published sources on labor opposition to vacine mandates, including AFT. Instead you demand that the only thing that I should do is make a counter factual positive inference of WTU’s position. [/quote]

You have not been claiming to be giving your interpretation. You have been claiming to state facts when you have not been. The WTU's publicly stated position is that the union wants to negotiate. If you can find another publicly stated position, please post it. Short of that, I have been stating facts and you have been posting anti-union spin.

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Let me explain again. A union’s assertion that a workplace action is a “subject for mandatory bargaining” does NOT mean they support that action. It means that they are demanding the opportunity to bargain over it if the employer intends to take the action. We have plenty of evidence including in the form of express statements from AFT and other unions that WTU most likely opposes mandatory vaccination. And of course they NEVER mention mandatory vaccination in their demands - just masking etc. The overwhelming inference here is that WTU opposes/would oppose mandatory vaccination. [/quote]

It also DOES NOT mean they do not support it.  The WTU does not owe you (parent/community member) any comments or information. They owe their dues paying members information. That’s it. [/quote]

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