Bloomberg Law
July 28, 2021, 7:23 PM UTC

Unions Split Over Vaccine Mandates as Variant Threatens Workers

Ian Kullgren
Ian Kullgren
Reporter
Robert Iafolla
Robert Iafolla
Reporter

After working together for more than a year to promote worker safety during the pandemic, organized labor leaders increasingly are divided over vaccine mandates aimed at stopping a new and potentially more deadly coronavirus strain from ravaging the U.S. workforce.

The rift was evident as the AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest labor federation, said Tuesday it fully supports mandatory vaccines to safeguard the economic recovery—openly contradicting one of its largest members, the American Federation of Teachers, which a day earlier had said it would oppose any plan that doesn’t leave the choice to workers and unions.

The emerging divide came into ...

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