Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers said the union had reconsidered its position that vaccinations should only be voluntary.
After initially saying vaccines should only be voluntary for teachers, American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said she now supports mandates.
The president of a leading U.S. teachers union came out in support of vaccine mandates for teachers on Sunday.Randi Weingarten, head of the American Federation of Teachers, told Chuck Todd on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” The AFT represents 1.7 million members across the country and is the second-largest teachers union, after the National Education Association. Support from the union’s leadership could make it easier to implement requirements that teachers be vaccinated if they’re going to teach in-person.official position
, Weingarten had previously said vaccines were the most effective way to deal with the virus, and that all teachers should be urged to get them, but they should not be required to. But Weingarten said Sunday that she and the leadership within her union had decided to “revisit and reconsider” that policy. In recent days she had signaled aThe delta variant of COVID-19 had altered the dynamic,“The circumstances have changed,” she said. “It weighs really heavily on me that kids under 12 can’t get vaccinated.”"As a matter of personal conscience we need to be working with employers on vaccine mandates.
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