Please forward this to anyone with an interest in the Court Cases underway in Canada & the U.S.
regarding the legality of covid mandates. Thank-you. /Sandra
Date: December 19, 2021. With thanks to Ray for content.
Sent to: Brian Peckford (minor edits)
From the U.S., two things:
- Yesterday (Dec 18)
following on: Biden’s mandates, refusals of employees to get the jabs, employers backing down from implementation because they need the workers, Federal Court decisions go against Biden, but then a reversal and now . . .
Subject: More maneuvering in US re covid mandates .. referred to Supremes
(Enforcement is to start Jan 10).
a “lack of historical” precedent is often “the most telling indication” that Congress lacked the power to pass a law, or that an agency lacked the power to promulgate a regulation . . .
- The size (ramifications) of the employee refusal in the U.S., drawn from 3 articles (links below):
Amtrak . . . amid concerns about staff shortages . . . CEO William Flynn said the company would do away with the mandate
Florida’s AdventHealth announced the end of its vaccine requirement for some 83,000 workers
Tenet Healthcare, HCA Healthcare, and Cleveland Clinic recently announced they are pulling back as well, citing labor concerns. Along with AdventHealth, the three healthcare companies operate a combined 300 hospitals and have more than 500,000 workers.
Earlier this week, the Los Angeles Unified School District board, for different reasons, voted overwhelmingly in favor of postponing its student vaccine requirement from January 2022 until the fall of 2022 after tens of thousands of students reportedly would not comply—meaning that they would not be able to attend in-person classes.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the largest naval shipbuilder in the United States, announced it won’t enforce the Biden administration’s federal contractor mandate. . . . 44,000 workers
Boeing Has Suspended Its Vaccine Mandate (Dec 17)
The preceding are from 3 reports in these 2 postings
· 2021-12-17 Growing Number of Companies and Organizations Are Walking Back Vaccination Requirements. Plus Boeing Has Suspended Its Vaccine Mandate.
https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26282
· 2021-12-13 Prominent US hospitals drop vax mandates after massive shortage of key staff
https://sandrafinley.ca/blog/?p=26279
The Journal cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in reporting that as of September, unvaccinated employees accounted for a massive 30% of workers employed by over 2,000 U.S. hospitals.
Best wishes,