As parliament meets in St. Vincent, the St. Vincent and the Grenadines Teachers union wants more protest as mandatory vaccination is unbecoming.
The issue of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy for “frontline” workers, which includes teachers remains a challenge for all and the union in its defense continues to protest such inhumane action by the Government.
Hundreds of teachers are now at risk of losing their jobs over the forced vaccination, which came into effect on Dec. 3, following a 10-day grace period.
The union facilitated a protest in Kingston on Friday as hundreds of people, including vaccinated and unvaccinated teachers, responded to the union’s request.
I am very happy that the parents, the teachers, all workers, the unemployed, everybody who loves teachers came out and showed their love according to the union President Oswald Robinson,
Robinson said “they shifted the Parliament because they know this one was coming. If you run from the jumbie (ghost), you muck up with the coffin.”
The debate on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for 2022 is expected to begin today
The union the President said is preparing to sue the government should any teacher be fired as a result of their unvaccinated status.
“The legal instruments are being prepared. I should be signing sometime soon to give the final say in terms of what is going forward.
“we are moving ahead, forging with full force” he said. “We are compiling all the cases of what this government, the wickedness that this government has brought upon the Vincentian populace.
There seems to be a low uptake on the COVID 19 vaccine but the question is, will mandatory vaccination solve the problem, no teacher or any public servant will be forced into do something they don’t believe is right for them.
