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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]
[b]The WTU negotiated a number of safety issues for schools which included mandatory vaccines.[/b] That is a fact. The negotiations resulted in a mandate with WTU support. 
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Every time you make this false claim, I'm going to come back here and dispute it.  WTU saying that vaccines are a subject of "mandatory bargaining" does NOT mean that WTU was affirmatively pushing DCPS for a vaccine mandate.  It means that WTU was asserting its right to limit DCPS's ability to impose a vaccine mandate.  And of course -- THERE IS NO MANDATE.  Vaccination is still VOLUNTARY for WTU members and all adults in DCPS.  WTU has zero, and I mean ZERO, credibility to be claiming expertise or bona fide interest in safety measures unless and until they are affirmatively pushing for vaccine mandates for all adults in DCPS. Period. [/quote]

I really don't understand your hangup on this topic, especially since you have been proven wrong. Saying that something is subject to "mandatory bargaining" means that it must be negotiated. Indeed, a vaccine mandate was negotiated and approved. For some reason, you understand "negotiate" to mean "oppose". I don't know why you have this understanding, but it is wrong linguistically and it has been proven wrong factually.

Yes, teachers now have a vaccine mandate. There are medical and religious reasons -- both of which I oppose -- but those with such exemptions are subject to weekly testing. This is the same mandate faced by other DC employees.

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Can you show us the provisions in the teachers collective bargaining agreement that requires vaccines to be negotiated? Because that's something specific to -- and different in -- each collective bargaining agreement. [/quote]

I'm not sure what that has to do with anything other than and attempt to change the subject and/or ignore the fact that a mandate was negotiated.
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