NY Mayor Bill De Blasio Threatens To Withhold Police Paychecks For Non-Compliance With Vaxx Mandate

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The low rate of vaccination compliance by New York’s finest has lame duck Mayor Bill de Blasio threatening to withhold pay checks from the police and other city workers.

Under the mayor’s mandate, all city workers must be vaccinated or be tested weekly for the disease. That order goes into effect on Monday,with an estimated 340,000 city workers under its guidelines.

“If someone, again, does not follow that mandate, that’s true, eventually, they’re not going to be paid, obviously,” de Blasio said in a press conference on Thursday.

The mayor has long had a contentious relationship with NY police, who feel his backing of no bail and lax incarceration of repeat offenders make their job more difficult.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-york-mayor-bill-de-blasio-threatens-to-withhold-police-paychecks-for-non-compliance-with-vaxx-mandate/ar-AAOli53

[tonedevil]

1. Another case...

of the police defunding themselves. FTP

[no_hypocrisy]

2. I dunno. This action may hurt mayoral democratic candidate Eric Adams.

He's an ex-cop himself. He may not want to piss off the Police Union (Patrick Lynch especially).

Then there's a braggadocio Curtis Sliwa (republican candidate/Guardian Angels) who goes around saying the NYPD don't get enough respect.

Plus if enough cops call DeBlasio's bluff and crime goes up, guess who gets blamed?

[Irish_Dem]

3. The police hold all the cards and they know it.

[DBoon]

7. I recall a management training aphorism

"If you have one person who is absolutely indispensable, without whom the business cannot function, fire that person immediately"

[Irish_Dem]

8. Good point. Indispensable people are dangerous to an organization.

For a lot of reasons.

[DBoon]

9. Even if they are police officers

[Irish_Dem]

10. Especially if they are police officers, they have power of life and death over the public.

[OnDoutside]

4. Weekly fines might be a better option.

[MichMan]

5. Does the city fall under the new federal OSHA mandate?

If so, they could face $14k in federal fines per employee as a result of the police union not agreeing. That would appear to put the union in a very favorable position regarding contract incentives before they agree with the requirement.

[mopinko]

6. chicago cops, too.

maskholes everywhere.