In the coming days, dozens of unvaccinated FDNY personnel could lose their jobs due to COVID mandates.
Dozens of unvaccinated FDNY personnel could lose their jobs in the coming days.
The president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association says many of the firefighters in question have already been infected several times and that the mandate to vaccinate is unfair to them. Of the 70 firefighters facing termination, 24 of them haven't been on the job and haven't been getting paid since November.
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