New York’s Teachers Union Refuses to Work Unless Every Student, Staffer Tested for COVID-19

New York’s powerful teachers union threatened Wednesday to walk out unless every student and staffer in the Big Apple’s sprawling public school system is tested for the coronavirus as a precondition for restarting in-classroom learning — a near-impossible task.

United Federation of Teachers chief Michael Mulgrew issued the ultimatum as he laid out a series of preconditions that City Hall must meet for teachers to return to classrooms — demands he acknowledged could delay Mayor Bill de Blasio ‘s planned Sept. 10 reopening by a month.

“The minute we feel the mayor is trying to force people into an unsafe school, we go,” Mulgrew said, throwing down the gauntlet.

When asked to clarify, Mulgrew said that a walkout and sickout were among the options on the table. . .

“Every single person — both adult and child — that is to enter an NYC school must have evidence that they do not have the COVID virus,” Michael Mulgrew, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, told reporters at a press conference, where he laid out the demand. (Read more from “New York’s Teachers Union Refuses to Work Unless Every Student, Staffer Tested for COVID-19” HERE)

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