So, I work in a nursing home, and like most of healthcare, they're going full on 'jab or job' and mandating the vaccine if you want to stay employed. I'm of course not budging, letting them fire me for this, but a fair few of my coworkers are going to capitulate.
So I figure, I'm going to make sure the other side loses even when it wins. I remember that awhile back, OSHA ruled that any side-effects from mandated vaccination had to be recorded as workplace injury, and had to be compensated as such. This would also require workplaces to sign a liability waiver, or else be faced with pretty vicious lawsuits. So I go searching to see if I can find this paperwork, print it out, pass it on to the people who are knuckling under... And what do I find...
https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus/faqs#vaccine
"DOL and OSHA, as well as other federal agencies, are working diligently to encourage COVID-19 vaccinations. OSHA does not wish to have any appearance of discouraging workers from receiving COVID-19 vaccination, and also does not wish to disincentivize employers’ vaccination efforts. As a result, OSHA will not enforce 29 CFR 1904’s recording requirements to require any employers to record worker side effects from COVID-19 vaccination through May 2022. We will reevaluate the agency’s position at that time to determine the best course of action moving forward."
Ain't been updated since then, and the major push for vaccine mandates started really gaining steam in the past few months... I'm guessing that their silence is being taken as tacit approval, or that they've given the go-ahead in the back rooms. So the high muckety-mucks know they can get away with it without even a ghost of resistance...
I don't remember seeing this circling around these parts, and I do a fair bit of lurking... Thought everybody should know that there's yet another area where worker protections from this bullshit have rotted through.
Also found this little bit of loveliness in my news: https://archive.is/uAN4z "Biden Tells Nursing Homes to Vaccinate Staffs to Keep Medicare, Medicaid Funds"
Have you told your coworkers you're standing firm? If they think they're the only one who'd be refusing they may be reluctant to refuse themselves, but if they think there are enough others that the nursing home won't be able to enforce it they may feel more comfortable refusing. Strength in numbers.
Oh certainly. And I know for a fact I'm not the only one who'll be leaving. Roughly a third of the nursing staff, a quarter of the wait staff, and fully half of the kitchen staff (including the terrifying dragon of a middle-aged lady who more or less single-handedly keeps the entire food system running) are going out with me. And like I said, I found out about this because I was researching up weapons to give to the people who have admitted they're staying... because I've been talking to them about my decision to stand firm.
Like most nursing homes, this place is always understaffed... and about a third of its staff is going to walk out at once over this. I have my doubts that the place is going to survive.
Which... honestly is sad. The residents here are amazing people, I take pride in helping them. But the management are detached from reality, as most management is, and are more concerned with looking good and providing the illusion of safety, than actually caring for their charges.
Or management is just playing their role in this giant game of chicken, hoping you'll flinch before they do.
Alex Berenson's been getting/sharing a bunch of emails from people working in hospitals and nursing homes that all say the same thing: about a third of people will not comply, and none of these places can survive having lost a third of their staff.