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"
Washington State has anyone that even hints at working for the state has to get the jab. The job market is terrible, so finding something else is very difficult.
Most hospitals and medical centers are closed down waiting for the Delta variant onslaught. So, doctors nurses and others feel forced to do as the governor says.
It sucks, and none of them know what to do.
Hard to find work? All I see are help wanted signs everywhere I go all over the south and the rockies area too