Thousands march in protest of vax mandate
BY BEN BRACHFELD
Thousands of municipal
employees and allies marched
across the Brooklyn Bridge on
Oct. 25 in protest of the city’s
impending vaccination mandate,
scheduled to take effect
before the end of the month.
Marchers gathered at
MetroTech Plaza in Downtown
Brooklyn for a rally,
where they chanted their intentions
to “hold the line” and
not get vaccinated against
the coronavirus even if that
means losing their jobs.
“Today is a day in which
we, the workers of this great
city, stand up to unreasonable
mandates,” a worker named
Gary told the crowd at Metro-
Tech. “We, the workers, are
the foundation on which this
city stands, and without that
foundation, will crumble.”
The mostly unmasked protesters
marched across the
Brooklyn Bridge chanting “F–k
de Blasio,” “f–k Joe Biden,” “we
will not comply,” “my body my
choice,” and “save our children.”
Marchers were greeted
by Republican mayoral candidate
Curtis Sliwa at the Manhattan
side of the bridge, before
making their way to City Hall.
Most municipal employees
have been under a “vaccine-ortest”
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mandate since last month,
requiring workers either provide
proof of vaccination or
submit to weekly COVID tests,
but the mayor announced last
week that the entire city workforce
would now be required to
get vaccinated, without a testing
carveout, citing success
in previous vaccine-only mandates
for teachers and health
care workers.
As of Oct. 19, vaccination
rates for employees at the Department
of Education and
Health & Hospitals were 96
percent and 95 percent, respectively.
The numbers are far lower
for employees of the NYPD,
FDNY, EMS, and Sanitation
Department, who made up a
large contingent of the protest.
70 percent of NYPD employees,
62 percent of Sanitation workers,
61 percent of EMTs, 60 percent
of FDNY fi refi ghters had
gotten the jab as of last week,
according to data provided by
the mayor’s offi ce. Other lowvaxxed
agencies include Homeless
Services at 67 percent and
NYCHA at 59 percent.
They have until Friday at
5 pm to present proof of vaccination,
or else they will be
put on unpaid leave. The lowest
vaxxed agency, the Department
of Corrections at 51 percent,
has until next month to
get the jab due to the ongoingsituation
at Rikers Island.
The union representing
most NYPD offi cers, the Police
Benevolent Association, fi led a
lawsuit against the city Monday
aiming to stop the mandate;
suits to stop previous mandates
for teachers, health care workers,
and to go to restaurants
and other public accommodations
have failed thus far.
Asked Monday if the city
has contingency plans in
place if thousands of essential
city workers are put on unpaid
leave, Mayor Bill de Blasio
said he had been in talks with
agency heads over such plans,
which would include “use of
overtime” and “changing deployments,”
but noted that he
expects most workers to prioritize
keeping their job over remaining
unvaxxed, as seen at
the Department of Education
and Health and Hospitals.
“I talked to all the relevant
commissioners in the lead up,
especially the most crucial
operational agencies. and every
one of them said they were
confi dent that it was the right
thing to do,” Hizzoner said at
his Monday press briefi ng.
“And obviously, you know, consistent
majorities of their members
of their departments have
gotten vaccinated, but we’ve
seen the mandates move a lot
more people to get vaccinated.”
The overwhelming majority
of scientists agree that the
coronavirus vaccine is both
safe and effective, and half the
world’s population has now
received at least one dose. A
recent CDC study also found
that about 90-95 percent of people
hospitalized for COVID in
New York were unvaccinated.
Anti-vaccine-mandate protesters cross the Brooklyn Bridge on Oct. 25. Photo by Lloyd Mitchell
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