The Steady Drip: 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)

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).

Resources: Past Research

America Votes (Past Research on America Votes & the National Education Association (NEA))

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 Pattern of Using the Dead as Political Weapons Against the Right (Past Research on CNN & Ted Turner)

SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 2015

https://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2015/06/charleston-cnns-sick-pattern-of-using.html

FDA Fails to Protect Americans from Dangerous Drugs and Unsafe Foods (Past Research on the FDA)

SUNDAY, MAY 10, 2015