Loading ...Labor unions sue Biden administration to expand Covid vaccine mandates and cover smaller businesses
- The AFL-CIO, United Food and Commercial Workers, and Service Employees International unions challenged the Biden administration’s business vaccine mandate in federal appeals courts last week.
- While they support the vaccine and testing requirements, the unions want the mandates to cover as many businesses as possible, not just those with 100 or more employees.
- As unions are trying to get the mandates expanded, Republican attorneys general are trying to get them overturned.
“The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union and the AFL-CIO asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last week to review the requirements. The AFL-CIO is the largest federation of trade unions in the U.S., and the UFCW is the largest meatpacking and food processing union.
While the unions did not provide arguments in their petition, a spokesman for the food workers union told CNBC the group wants the mandates expanded to cover as many businesses as possible. The union also wants the new Labor Department rule to ensure employees don’t have to cover the costs of Covid testing and face masks. The Biden mandates don’t force companies to cover those costs.”
Now we know the main reason for the mandate. This poor excuse for a President (PEPOTUS) has always been a union ass kisser, as it was the only way someone as stupid and corrupt as he is could ever get elected to dog catcher. The unions have a hard time convincing employees at small firms from becoming union shops. By including smaller firms in the mandate and making it that the employers don’t have to bear the cost of testing, this will get more smaller company workforces to vote for a union because the union will fight for having the firms negotiate the cost of testing into the benefits the workers receive. Ultimately it is the employer paying for it but only if there is a union contract to protect the workers from having to pay out of pocket. Brilliant, devious leftist crap, but effective to getting more union employees and more Dem voters.