COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandate gets support from largest US teachers union (Connecting the Dots: National Education Association, The American Federation of Teachers, America Votes & Soros Funding, All Networking)
The National
Education Association says 90% of its members are already vaccinated
Fox News
Michael RuizBy
Michael Ruiz | Fox News
Published August
12, 2021 10:00pm EDT
https://www.foxnews.com/us/covid-19-vaccine-mandate-gets-support-from-largest-us-teachers-union
The National Education Association – the country’s largest teachers union
– endorsed COVID-19 vaccination and testing mandates for its
members Thursday, even as 90% of them have already gotten the jab.
"We also
support regular COVID-19 testing in lieu of vaccination for those not yet
vaccinated or those for whom vaccination is not medically appropriate or
effective. We believe that such vaccine requirements and accommodations are an
appropriate, responsible, and necessary step to ensure the safety of our school
communities and to protect our students," the union said in a statement.
"No one
wants to be back in the classroom with their students more than educators, and
student safety is our number one priority," the union’s president, Becky
Pringle, said in a statement she shared to Twitter. "NEA has said from the
beginning that we need to follow the science, and evidence shows that COVID-19
vaccines, combined with other safety measures, are the most powerful weapon we
have against the pandemic."
She said the
delta variant and "lagging public vaccination rates" were cause for
concern.
"Educators
must have a voice in how vaccine requirements are implemented to ensure that
students and educators are able to enjoy safe, uninterrupted, in-person education,"
Pringle said.
But with nine in
10 union members already vaccinated, mandates would effectively take away the
voice of those few holdouts who have not taken the injections.
Smaller teachers
unions around the country have taken a different stance – and members have
questioned the wisdom of encouraging unions to ask the government to impose
restrictions on their own members.
The American Federation of Teachers, the nation’s second-largest union behind
the NEA, has not endorsed vaccine
mandates for its members but softened its resistance
in a new resolution.
"We believe
that workplace policies should be done with working people, not to them,"
that group’s president, Randi Weingarten, told The Hill on
Thursday.
New York State United Teachers stated
last week that it would not support a vaccine mandate.
"We have
advocated since the beginning of the year that any educator who wants a vaccine
should have easy access to one," the union said in a statement on Aug. 2.
"We would support local efforts to encourage more vaccinations, such as
through programs that require that those who are not vaccinated get tested on a
regular basis. But it’s critical that districts come up with plans to make
testing available on-site and at no cost. What we have not supported is a
vaccine mandate."
Chief White House
health adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases, voiced support for teacher vaccine mandates
earlier this week in a televised interview on MSNBC. However, he said such a
call would not come from the federal government.
Connecting the Dots:
American
Federation of Teachers is a national partner with America
Votes.
National
Education Association (NEA) is a national partner with America
Votes.
Planned
Parenthood Action Fund is a national partner with America
Votes.
Cecile Richards was
the founder & president of America Votes, is the president of
the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, the president of the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America and was a grant overseer for the Turner
Foundation.
Open Society Foundations was a funder for the Planned
Parenthood Federation of America.
George Soros is
the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations
and was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank).
Donald Kennedy was
a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank) and a commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA).
Margaret A.
Hamburg is the commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) and the VP for the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank).
Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) was a
funder for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank).
Ted Turner is a
co-chairman for the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
the chairman for
the Turner Foundation and the founder of CNN.
Jessica
Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative
(think tank), was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank) and an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank) and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Mark B. McClellan was
a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), a
commissioner for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and is
a director at Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine Manufacture).
Charles O.
Prince III is a director at Johnson & Johnson (Vaccine
Manufacture) and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
Ann Dibble Jordan was
a director at Johnson & Johnson, is married to Vernon
E. Jordan Jr., and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).
Constance J.
Horner was a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (think
tank) and is a director at Pfizer Inc. (Vaccine Manufacture).
Suzanne Nora
Johnson is a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank)
and a director at Pfizer Inc. (Vaccine Manufacture).
Amy W. Schulman is
a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank) and the EVP
& general counsel for Pfizer Inc. (Vaccine Manufacture).
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WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2014/11/america-votes.html
Planned Parenthood
Prez: ‘A Woman Voting for Ted Cruz Is Like a Chicken Voting for Col. Sanders’ (Past Research on Cecile Richards)
TUESDAY, APRIL
19, 2016
https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/planned-parenthood-prez-woman-voting.html
Charleston: CNN’s Sick
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SATURDAY, JUNE
20, 2015
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FDA Fails to Protect
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SUNDAY, MAY 10,
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SUNDAY, APRIL 10,
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https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2016/04/johnsons-baby-powder-and-ovarian-cancer.html
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER
19, 2021
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