NYC Teachers Union to Take Legal Action Against Call for Layoffs of Unvaccinated Staff

President of the United Federation of Teachers Michael Mulgrew at the UFT headquarters in downtown Manhattan, New York, on Oct. 31, 2013. Petr Svab/Epoch Times

The United Federation of Teachers (UFT) is resisting full compliance with New York City’s vaccine mandate for public school teachers and staffers.

Michael Mulgrew, president of UFT, said city hall has asserted that unvaccinated staffers will be taken off the payroll without exception, including those with religious and medical exemptions.