24 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, U.S., October 29, 2021. New York City Fire Department (FDNY) Uniformed Firefighters Association (UFA) President Andrew Ansbro speaks while a NYFD truck exit the building during a news conference as the city's COVID-19 vaccine mandate deadline approaches at Ladder Co. The New York mandate prompted several thousand uniformed workers, including emergency medical services and sanitation employees, to get the required minimum first shot by the Friday afternoon deadline, and more than 3,500 others to do so over the weekend, de Blasio said. But the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York said courts last week rejected its requests for an emergency order to halt the mandate's enforcement. New York City police and firefighter unions also have challenged the mandate.
In Cook County, Illinois, a judge on Monday temporary blocked Chicago from enforcing a vaccine mandate for police officers who are union members and ordered the case to arbitration.
Mandate disputes also have erupted in other cities as political leaders, including President Joe Biden, have sought to stem the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of the coronavirus. "Time and time again we put the mandates in place and they've worked," de Blasio, a Democrat, told a briefing. The vaccination rate for city's workforce of 378,000 employees, including teachers, corrections officers and other city workers who faced previous orders, rose to at least 91% over the weekend from 86% on Thursday, de Blasio said. city began enforcing the mandate on Monday morning. 20 order, which police and firefighter union leaders said would cause staff shortages, led to an 11th-hour rush of inoculations that shrank the ranks of the unvaccinated as officials in the largest U.S. NEW YORK, Nov 1 (Reuters) - New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio declared his coronavirus vaccination order for emergency responders a success on Monday, with no disruption to city services, despite a sickout by some firefighters who officials said were protesting the mandate.
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