NYC Unions May Sue Over Pro Sports Vax Exemption

Politico reports:

A still-unvaccinated Kyrie Irving played his first home game in Brooklyn last night after New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to reverse the city’s vaccine mandate specifically for athletes and performers while leaving it in place for everyone else.

While Nets fans at the Barclays Center greeted Irving with a big ovation, elsewhere in the city, the chorus of jeers over Adams’ move is only growing louder.

Unions for city workers, whose members were fired for refusing to get the shot, are mulling new legal action in light of the mayor’s latest policy change. While their previous challenges to the mandate failed, they believe Adams’ decision to lift the rules for professional sports teams may give them a stronger case.

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?? NYC municipal unions mull legal action after Mayor Adams’ decision to spare athletes and entertainers from the private-sector employer vaccine mandate — while requiring municipal workers to get vaxxed or lose their jobs.https://t.co/ZtcCeLrDMa

— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) March 25, 2022

Carveouts for performers and athletes absolves wealthy & famous of their responsibility to protect fellow New Yorkers, and further entrenches the inequities that the pandemic exposed and exacerbated by establishing one standard for the wealthy and another for the working class

— Jumaane Williams (@JumaaneWilliams) March 28, 2022