Vaccine Mandate Deadline Looms for City Workers

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 29, 2021

Christina Greer, political science professor at Fordham University, host of the podcast FAQNYC, politics editor at The Grio and author of Black Ethnics: Race, Immigration, and the Pursuit of the American Dream (Oxford University Press, 2013), and Robert Hennelly, City Hall reporter for The Chief-Leader, former WNYC reporter, and the author of Stuck Nation: Can the United States Change Course on Our History of Choosing Profits Over People? (Democracy at Work, 2021), talk about today's deadline for police, fire and sanitation workers to get vaccinated or face going on unpaid leave.

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