USA vaccination obligation: if you want the ships you have to cancel it
Biden's vaccination requirement applies to federal employees and those of companies with over 100 workers. But companies, driven by practical necessities, are revolting even when they work for the government. This week a U.S. Navy subcontractor reversed course and announced that most workers will no longer be required to be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, the company that controls Newport News Shipbuilding, the Newport shipyards, made the announcement Tuesday night notifying employees that they will no longer have to meet the January 4 deadline.
“ In regards to Ingalls Shipbuilding and Newport News Shipbuilding, our client has confirmed that our contracts do not include a vaccination obligation , ” the letter reads. “ In light of this development, we hereby suspend the deadline for vaccination, unless specific technical solutions contracts require it ”.
The yard initially announced that all 25,000 employees should be fully vaccinated by December 8 as a "condition to continue working," then moved the deadline to January – and has now canceled it.
However, some shipyard employees feel "cheated", as "they only got vaccinated because of the obligation," according to WTKR.
“They made me take it and then lifted the obligation,” said Newport News shipyard clerk Deshawn Royal. “ I didn't want to take him, but they said I had to or we would be fired. And then they took it off. You have only hurt us “.
The situation is simple: if the Navy wants new ships to be built and launched, it must accept that unvaccinated workers also continue their duties, otherwise there will be severe delays that could jeopardize the strategic position of the US. So one makes a virtue of necessity ..
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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/cantieri-obbligo-vaccinale/ on Sun, 21 Nov 2021 12:51:50 +0000.