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Two anti-vax Boston teachers sue their own union over vaccination agreement with city

Two Boston teachers who belong to the anti-vax group that holds morning protests outside Mayor Wu's house today sued the Boston Teachers Union for a signing an agreement with the Wu administration that could force unvaccinated teachers to dip into accumulated sick leave to keep getting paid while on leave until citywide coronavirus numbers dip below city benchmarks.

In their suit, filed in Suffolk Superior Court, Paula Taylor and John Daley say their union violated its own bylaws by presenting members a copy of the "memorandum of agreement" at a Feb. 9 union meeting without the 15 days notice required for any collective-bargaining agreements that include "substantial departures" from the union's existing contract. They are asking a judge to overturn the agreement, at least pending a vote with 15 days notice.

In addition to belonging to the BTU, Taylor and Daley are members of Boston First Responders United, a group of first responders and teachers who claim their rights to "bodily autonomy" mean trump city public-health efforts and that they should be allowed to refuse vaccinations and keep their jobs.

Under the memorandum, BPS could put any teachers who refuse to get shots on unpaid leave - although they could then draw down accumulated leave - as long as Boston is in a "red zone" of Covid-19 numbers, including ICU occupancy of more than 95%, hospital occupancy of more than daily Covid-19 cases and a daily test positivity rate above 5%. Once the numbers go well below those, unvaccinated teachers could return to the classroom as long as they test negative on twice-weekly tests. The union says this could affect more than 380 teachers.

As of last week, the ICU number was below that threshold, but overall hospital occupancy and test positivity rates were higher, the Boston Public Health Commission said Friday.

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Toxic stupidity is now a hobby!

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People want to get paid while putting everyone at risk. To paraphrase HST, when the going gets stupid, the stupid turn pro!

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It's like negotiating with toddlers. This agreement sounds like it is very very fair. Maybe too fair. Anti-vax teachers don't lose their jobs and can pull from their sick time until the numbers lower off. I take that back, it is like negotiating with terrorists. They have their goal and there is no appeasing them.

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Who knoo? Sanoonoo. And Magoo. Don’t forget about Jean Shaheen. Magoo.

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All over a shot in the arm? These people are relentless in their pursuit of a political statement. We get it, you don't believe science and you will gladly extend the pandemic to make that point. Now please step aside so those of us who want to return to some semblance of normalcy can continue to navigate our newly changed world.

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Since Boston is not currently below the 3 thresholds, shouldn't the teachers be out now? Same for bringing the remote workers back to City Hall today...why not wait until the metrics are were the Mayor says they should be to be okay for public safety?

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The agreement with the teachers won't kick in until the appeals court lifts the temporary stay.

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When elementary school kids would likely think you're behaving like stupid, spoiled brats, it's probably not worth going back in the classroom.

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I'll go do their job for $1 a year less. No joke.

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Daley is a teacher at the O’Bryant School of Math & Science.

You can’t make this shit up.

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Daley was one of the mob that stormed and tried to occupy the BTU Winter Conference on Saturday, shouting “Wu-Tang Gang” and taunting attendees for wearing masks in the meeting.

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I'm no lawyer, but I mean, with ambiguous language like that, you're just asking for something to end up in the hands of a judge, right?

Yeah, if I'm an anti-vaxxer in this community, I don't bother suing, because there's no chance a liberal judge (and I hate politicizing non-partisan judges, but they're humans with leanings, and more importantly, tenure) is going to hand the anti-vaxxer a definition of the terms in their contract with their union which favors them.

These morons are down to an interpretation of "substantial departures", because of (expletive) course no person ever had the foresight to draw up a contract which forces them to notify you with 15 days' notice of the unforeseeable and specific terms that you had to get vaccinated against a highly contagious disease to retain your job working around other people's children. What a couple of jerkoffs.

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117 years of case law says that you can't escape consequences of not getting vaccinated. You can be unvaccinated, but that doesn't mean that the state cannot impose sanctions on your choosing to be a plague rat.

Conservative judges are booting these bullshit lawsuits right and left, because precedent matters.

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That science is a joke and that you get your knowledge from QAnon?

Fire them.

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Let not your hearts be troubled, a new superintendent will fix all this.

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and says who? If there's one thing a new top executive isn't going to be involved with, it's settling internal issues within their employees' union...

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I believe that post was sarcastic

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like, maybe get out there and practice his putting?

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