City Of Sacramento Employee Covid Vaccine Numbers Released: Nearly 80 Percent Vaccinated

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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Two weeks aft its vaccine deadline, the City of Sacramento says 79 percent of its employees — much than 3,500 — person been vaccinated, but astir 19 percent, oregon astir 850 employees, person yet to get the shots.

City leaders archer CBS13 they are excited astir the vaccination numbers particularly seeing a 99 percent reporting rate.

“It’s mandated truthful they’re either going to discontinue oregon spell determination else,” said Adam Baird, a City of Sacramento employee.

Baird disquieted astir archetypal responders walking disconnected the occupation due to the fact that of the vaccine mandate.

“Police already person a hard capable job. Firefighters already person a hard capable job,” helium said.

Baird, a metropolis playground inspector, is vaccinated but is against the mandate. He believes everyone who works for the metropolis should get a choice.

“If you privation to get vaccinated, get vaccinated, oregon don’t get vaccinated. Wear a mask, don’t deterioration a mask, but it shouldn’t beryllium a mandate,” helium said.

Almost 80 percent of metropolis employees person reported getting the shot. When it comes to the city’s nationalist information workers, 76 percent of firefighters are afloat vaccinated and 73 percent percent of constabulary are afloat vaccinated.

But Sacramento’s Vice Mayor, Jay Schenirer says determination are public-facing metropolis employees who are moving and are not vaccinated.

“We’re taking precautions. People person to societal distance, radical should beryllium wearing masks. I deliberation our extremity and our beardown propulsion needs to beryllium everyone needs to beryllium vaccinated,” said Schenirer.

Right now, whether metropolis employees could beryllium fired for not getting the changeable is nether negotiations with labour unions. And though the Sacramento Police Union had antecedently said they were prepared to combat the city’s “vaccinate oregon terminate” program, the national President changed his tune.

SPOA President Tim Davis said:

“We are arrogant of our members vaccination complaint and that it exceeds the complaint of residents successful Sacramento County. We volition proceed to promote our unvaccinated members to see getting vaccinated and enactment intimately with the metropolis manager connected a argumentation to code those who determine not to bash it astatine this time.

It is of upmost value that we support each our members from getting COVID-19 and guarantee the information of assemblage members we enactment with each day. We enactment a argumentation that allows our members to proceed moving and are unfastened to regular investigating and different information measures.”

Schenirer said, “We conscionable request to support moving towards the 100 percent extremity that we have. I cognize our constabulary main and occurrence main are trying to assistance america get there.”

Sacramento Firefighter Union 522 had nary remark for this story.

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There are 72 employees who did not study their presumption by the deadline. They volition beryllium enactment connected unpaid leave, a word that was agreed to by the city’s labour partners