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Clarification on vaccine mandate concerns and specific examples
0:43:46
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Nominee Muriel Goode-Trufant asks for clarification on whether the question is specifically about the vaccine mandate, and Council Member Ariola provides more detailed examples of the issues she's addressing.
- Goode-Trufant seeks to understand if the question is specific to the vaccine mandate or more general
- Ariola confirms it's about the vaccine mandate and elaborates on specific cases
- The council member emphasizes the unfairness of the situation for affected city workers
Muriel Goode-Trufant
0:43:46
Is the question concerning vaccines mandate in particular or in general?
Joann Ariola
0:43:53
This is for the vaccine mandate in particular because this is where we seem to have the stumbling block.
0:43:58
We have article 70 eights that have been won.
0:44:00
People have been ordered back to work and yet the city is is appealing it.
0:44:04
Either there's a stay or they've lost the appeals.
0:44:07
Taxpayer dollars are being spent.
0:44:08
It's unfair.
0:44:09
It's unfair to the people who are now living in shelters, living in their cars, living with family, just by charity.
0:44:16
And meanwhile, courts, judges have ordered that they come back to work, a mandate that was now called arbitrary and capricious and now ineffective by by the former, Department of Health doctor and the and the most current.
0:44:31
And we've been fighting for so many of them to come back to work and many have.
0:44:35
Yet others that are similarly situated are being turned down.
0:44:40
Why is that?