WASHINGTON—Big cities and hospitals that mandated vaccines for frontline workers during the pandemic have unwittingly become the impetus for a new opposition force. A group of leaders from police and fire departments, EMS, and other related health care professions, created a new coalition to empower frontline workers to fight back against public policies that hurt their livelihoods.
The National Coalition of Frontline Workers (NCFW) launched in Washington, D.C., on Thursday with representatives from the first responders’ professions. Its first official agenda was to call on President Joe Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency that has been in effect and been repeatedly extended since January 2020.
