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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
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]

You are simply not telling the truth. The statement from the AFT could not be more clear in stating that it supports a mandate being subject to negotiations. That does not mean the organization opposes a mandate. You are welcome to state your opinion on the subject, but when you claim that you are providing facts instead of opinion you are wrong.

It is obvious that the WTU strongly supports vaccination. The anecdotal evidence we have seen posted by teachers in this forum is that teachers are being vaccinated at a very high rate. If or when DCPS proposes a mandate, the WTU is clearly open to negotiating it. Those are the facts. 
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If WTU "strongly supports vaccination," as you suggest, then they could easily ask their members (privately) if they have or have not been vaccinated, then report an overall percentage of how many teachers have been vaccinated to the public so that parents who have now been told our vaccinated kids now have to mask up in school in the fall will not assume it's to protect unvaxxed teachers. We simply have no idea how many DCPS teachers have been vaccinated. None. And after a year of dissembling and bad faith arguing by the Mayor and WTU, and with some of our kids having gone more than a year without a single in-person class at their DCPS school, parents don't trust any of them. Nor should we. [/quote]

It is not the WTU's role to provide information to parents. That is for DCPS to do and the WTU wants to work with DCPS on a survey. Moreover, there are a lot of non-WTU members in the schools who vaccination status should also concern you. 
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Jeff, are you ok? It's not like you to get into the weeds like this. I say this without any sarcasm.[/quote]

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