It’s good news to see teachers’ unions endorsing vaccination mandates to protect students and staff.
For Immediate Release
UTLA Board votes to support vaccine mandate for LAUSD employees
LOS ANGELES — The UTLA Board of Directors has voted overwhelmingly to support a vaccine mandate for all LAUSD employees. The UTLA Board had previously voted to not oppose a vaccine mandate. This stronger position comes as the Delta variant continues to surge in our communities and as students and staff prepare for a return to full-time, in-person learning next week.
“I am the parent of an LAUSD fifth-grader, and my family has been going through the same uncertainty and anguish as so many other families as we approach the return to school,” UTLA President Cecily Myart-Cruz said. “Because of the protocols that UTLA educators and LAUSD families fought for and won, LA Unified has among the strictest COVID safety protocols in the country. But this Delta variant is unlike anything we have seen so far in this crisis — especially its impact on children — and we all need to step up to do our part to protect the most vulnerable among us.”
The current surge in COVID cases underscores why UTLA members fought so hard for mask mandates, ventilation, access to vaccines, and other safety measures for our schools. Those safety measures we negotiated include a COVID Task Force at each school, which should be doing a physical walk-through of campuses today, August 13, to note violations of safety protocols so they can be addressed before students return on Monday.
UTLA also calls on the District to actively encourage and facilitate greater access to vaccination for parents, eligible students, and the communities we serve. The District and LA County Department of Health must work together to increase outreach, vaccination clinics, and testing in communities with low vaccination rates and high transmission rates.
However, vaccines are one layer of protection. As staff and students return to school, we urge everyone to remain vigilant about all the layered mitigation strategies — from masking and ventilation to testing and tracing — needed to keep our learning spaces safe.
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Perhaps Diane is unaware of these facts (recent AFT union political history) below >.
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I think this is a bizarre conspiracy theory. The overwhelming majority of scientists and medical experts support the vaccines. Have you noticed that the recent explosion of COVID. In Texas, Florida, and other states consists almost entirely of the unvaccinated? I’m in a high-risk category, and I got my shots as soon as I could.
Hey folks, it’s the weekend! That’s why I want to thank Lucinda for providing the premise for a great drinking game! It would have been a shame to get it early in the week and have to endure the torture of not getting to play.
So here’s how it goes: line up your favorite beverage category (wine and beer recommended, harder stuff may cause alcoholic poisoning in such a short time of consumption) in ascending strength, minimum of seven, plus a glass for each. Next, be sure to have the comment above ready to read so that your hands are free to pour drinks quickly. Or better yet, have someone read them to you and try to keep up with the fast talkers! Take a drink whenever a tired trope comes up. Sometimes they don’t even try. Ready?
I see at least eleven, but I bundled a few. You may see more or less, but either way, no driving for you after the game! A few stand out and demand doubles of whatever is being used. The parenthetical phrases alone are just too classic to denigrate with one drink. After all, the dexterity to use both (Rabbi) and (but not those who cross the border illegally) in the same argument about vaccines is admirable. Don’t get me started on the bracketed one in the bottom section.
This game has the potential to make people forget “Hi, Bob!” Probably not the best way to start the weekend, but it’s hard to resist when the thread of anti-semitism, xenophobia, and an anti-science paranoia hits every needle eye in one swoop! We need to appreciate such talent while we still can.
You put a needed smile on my face.
I also got my shots, but I’m retired. I’m just wondering what the union and administrators will do when they come up against the younger and independent and often recalcitrant California teachers who won’t want the vaccine or testing. I know they can let the untenured go without a reason, but what will they do with the tenured? Fire them for insubordination? We do have a teacher shortage right now, too. I just hope things go smoothly for our kids’ sake.
“……younger and independent and often recalcitrant California teachers who won’t want the vaccine or testing.” Huh? I’m thinking that the younger and independent teachers would want to be vaccinated as much as anyone else. It’s my guess that most teachers would want to be vaccinated and masked while on the job since most teachers are not suicidal.
LAUSD just now mandated vaccinations. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-13/lausd-orders-teachers-get-covid-19-vaccine
LAUSD and Chicago Public Schools have mandated vaccinations for teachers.
Nice! Or as you say in New York, noice!