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New York City Workers Rally on August 8th To Ask The Court To Stop the Steal Of Their Jobs

For Immediate Release

Women of Color for Equal Justice
August 7, 2024

 Bowie, Maryland – It has been three years since some of NYC’s most dedicated workers have been out of work due to the unlawful pandemic era mandates. This is despite recent rulings in favor of workers this June 2024 in the 9th Circuit, and a jury award to workers in a Tennessee Federal Court that award workers approximately $600,000 in damages for the wrongful termination of employees who exercised their First Amendment right to refuse the Covid-19 vaccine. Recently Mayor Adams told New Yorkers at a “Community Conversation” that the City is facing “code red” staff shortages and is asking residents to allow him to hire immigrants to fill the job shortage while qualified experienced City workers continue to NOT be reinstated as the City fights to keep them from going back to work and rebuilding lives that were torn apart by pandemic era mandate terminations. Mayor Adams, however, stated during that conversation that he would do whatever the “courts” tell him to do regarding reinstating New York City workers. Also, in June 2024, 14 New York City Council members introduced a bi-partisan Resolution 5 that would require the City to reinstate discharged employees who exercised their right to refuse the Covid-19 vaccine; however, the resolution has yet to be passed within the entire council.

A large class of New York City workers filed a complaint in the New York Eastern District Federal Court two years ago in 2022 as case 22-cv-02234. Now that the City Council resolution has stalled and the Mayor states that he will do “whatever the court tells him,” New York City workers are hosting a “Workers Rally for Justice” on Thursday, August 8, 2024 to encourage the court to make its ruling in their case consistent with federal law and based on the two recent ruling in order to “stop the steal” of their jobs.

The New York City workers complaint includes an OSHA pre-emption claim, a statutory violation of the OSHA vaccine mandate ban and a fraud claim with two pending Fraud on the Court Motions against the City of New York supported by clear and convincing evidence. New York City workers want to get back to work without further damage to their careers, but their New York Eastern District Court Judge Komittee has not yet ruled on their case leaving them without remedy.

On August 8, 2024 at 12pm workers will gather before the New York Eastern District Court at 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, NY to remind the court that City workers are waiting for justice.

Where: 225 Cadman Plaza, Downtown Brooklyn, Eastern District Federal Courthouse
When: August 8 at Noon

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Women of Color for Equal Justice – is a Maryland non-profit national advocacy center that fights for equitable and humanitarian criminal justice reform and civil liberties that operates under direct of the Madison County Economic Development Corporation a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to eliminate structural and systemic barriers to equality, promote economic justice and development in communities of color around the country.

Contact: Jo Saint-George, Esq.
Email: jo@woc4equaljustice.org
Phone: (301) 447-3600/Cell: 602-326-8663