FDNY unions challenge New York Mayor Eric Adams’ decision to lift vaccination orders for celebrities and athletes unvaccinated the first correspondents in the city continue to lose their jobs because of them COVID-19 vaccine status. FDNY Fire Chief Andrew Ansbro and FDNY Fire Officers Association Lieutenant James McCarthy held a joint news conference Saturday asking Adams to cancel vaccination orders for firefighters in the city and to “sit down” with for discussion. President of the FDNY Firefighters Association, Lt. James McCarthy (L), President of the FDNY Firefighters Association, Andrew Ansbro (R) “We are here to say we support the revocation of the vaccine mandate announced by the mayor on Thursday,” McCarthy said. “We believe it should be extended as well. We support the revocation of the mandate for athletes and performers working in New York. We believe that people working for New York should also be mandated to be transferred to them.” The NY McCarthy, noting how “essential” firefighters are for the Empire State’s economic recovery, backed the task of handling New York firefighters throughout the pandemic. “We were here responding to COVID emergencies without masks, without tests, without vaccines,” McCarthy said. “We are exposed, we finally exposed our families, many of our members fell for COVID. However, we still made the city safe for everyone and we want them to treat us now like these new visitors.” Without first responders, many of whom have been forced to quit their jobs because of their reluctance to get vaccinated, the revenue-generating events in the city would not have taken place, McCarthy said. New York Mayor Eric Adams (Photo by Jimin Kim / VIEWpress via Getty Images) “If we are not here – the police, the fire – making the city safer, no one can come in and watch these games and eat, watch theatrical productions,” McCarthy said, adding that firefighters are asking are treated “at least as well” as the athletes and celebrities playing in the city. Speaking on behalf of firefighters who had to be vaccinated, even those who had not yet been vaccinated, in the hope that a “reasonable adjustment” would be made, Ansbro said “science has changed” since the order was issued and he insisted that should be removed with. “If you are going to abolish the vaccination order for some people in the city, you have to abolish it for everyone in the city,” Ansbro said. “If you are going to pursue science, science will tell you that there is no danger right now and putting hundreds of firefighters, police and other emergency workers out of work is not in the city’s best interest. unsafe. “ Ansbro urged Adams to “remember where he came from” as he made mayoral decisions. An FDNY fire truck makes a turn on Broadway as it accelerates to a call on November 28, 2018, in New York. (Gary Hershorn / Getty Images) “He came from his job as a traffic policeman under this stage at Penn Station,” caring for New Yorkers, Ansbro told Adams. “We both call on the mayor to sit down with the unions, to sit down with us and discuss what is happening with this mandate, where we are now and how this will affect the city in the future,” Ansbro said. “When he was elected mayor, he told de Blasio to sit down with the unions. Now it is his turn to continue …” “Mayor Adams, please sit with us,” Ansbro said as he called on the mayor to enforce “one rule for all.” On Thursday, Adams formally exempted athletes and artists from the city’s vaccination order against COVID-19, making the announcement at Citi Field with Mets general manager Sandy Alderson. Nurse Carolyn Ruyle prepares a dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Lurie Children’s Hospital Friday, November 5, 2021, in Chicago. (AP Photo / Nam Y. Huh) “I will make some difficult choices. People are not going to agree with some of them,” Adams said. “I have to move this city forward.” CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE THE FOX NEWS APPLICATION Adams also said his government has no plans to re-employ unvaccinated workers in the city. Ansbro estimates that between 400 and 500 firefighters are at risk of losing their jobs because they remain unvaccinated. About 1,400 city officials were fired earlier this year for failing to comply with the city’s mandate for the coronavirus vaccine.
