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US teachers' union leader supports vaccine mandate for educators as delta variant surges
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Randi Weingarten US teachers' union leader supports vaccine mandate for educators as delta variant surges
As a growing number of companies are requiring employees to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the president of the American Federation of Teachers union said on Sunday that she personally supports a vaccine mandate for educators.
"Vaccines are the single most important way of dealing with COVID. We've always dealt with - or since 1850 we've dealt with - vaccines in schools; it's not a new thing to have immunizations in schools," Randi Weingarten said on NBC's "Meet the Press." "And I think as a matter of personal conscience, I think that we need to be working with our employers - not opposing them on vaccine mandates."
COVID-19 vaccinations should be required for U.S. teachers to protect students who are too young to be inoculated, the head of the nation's second-largest teachers' union said on Sunday, shifting course to back mandated shots as more children fall ill. "The circumstances have changed," Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told NBC News' "Meet the Press" program. "It weighs really heavily on me that kids under 12 can't get vaccinated."
