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New York City municipal workers protest outside City Hall against the coming COVID-19 vaccine mandate. / PHOTO: Associated Press (Headline USA) A New York judge on Wednesday allowed a COVID-19 vaccine mandate set to begin Friday to steamroll over the city’s municipal workforce, denying a police union’s request for a temporary restraining order.
Judge Lizette Colon said the mandate can take effect as scheduled while also ordering city officials to appear in court Nov. 12 to defend the requirement against a union lawsuit seeking to have it declared illegal.
Colon, whose court is on Staten Island, issued the ruling hours after hearing arguments from lawyers for the Police Benevolent Association, the city’s largest police union, and the city, which prevailed in arguing the controversial mandate should be implemented without delay.
PBA President Pat Lynch said in a statement that Colon’s refusal to halt the mandate “sets the city up for a real crisis” and will “inevitably result in fewer cops available to protect our city.”
Lawyers for the PBA, which represents about 23,000 current and retired NYPD officers, said in court papers after Wednesday’s hearing that the vaccine mandate forces officers to choose between their careers and their personal beliefs, infringing officers’ “right […]
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