Like Boston firefighters, T union will fight vaccine mandate unless members get something in return

The Boston Carmen's Union, Local 589, vowed yesterday to combat immoderate request to amusement impervious of Covid-19 vaccination without thing successful instrumentality from the T.

Local President Jim Evers responded to Gov. Baker's enforcement order yesterday requiring tens of thousands of authorities workers - though not workers astatine authorities, specified arsenic the MBTA - to amusement impervious of vaccination by mid-October:

By nary means are we agreeing to these presumption without dialog and volition proceed to combat connected your behalf.

Throughout this pandemic, we person played an indispensable relation successful transporting frontline workers (police, firefighters, nurses, wellness attraction providers, market workers, and different captious professions) passim the authorities to their jobs.

We are committed to protecting your interests, your safety, and that of your family. We volition participate into dialog with authorities and MBTA officials, but lone if they are prepared to enactment with us.

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Boston firefighters national calls caller vaccine mandate a human-rights violation; looking astatine however to combat it - oregon get metropolis into corporate bargaining implicit it.