Unvaccinated General Motors CAMI Plant Workers Placed On Unpaid Leave
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Workers at the General Motors CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario that have not yet been vaccinated have been placed on unpaid leave, according to a report from Automotive News.
Mike Van Boekel, chair of the Unifor Local 88 brand that represents workers there, confirmed to Automotive News this week that an undisclosed number of hourly employees had been placed on unpaid leaves of absence as a result of their unvaccinated status.
GM Canada implemented a policy in October requiring any personnel entering its Canadian facilities to be fully vaccinated by December 12th. Unifor managed to secure exemptions for vaccinated workers who had received only one dose, Van Boekel told Automotive News, but those who are still unvaccinated have been placed on leave.
The automaker will begin enforcing the vaccine policy with random spot checks on workers at its plants in January. Workers who falsify their vaccination proof will be terminated, Unifor has advised employees.
Workers who are on unpaid leave are expected to be terminated by GM Canada early next year if they do not comply with the vaccination requirement or secure exempt status, Van Boekel also said. While he said Unifor plans to file grievances over the terminations, he told Automotive News that they have “a very weak case,” to have the decision overturned.
GM Canada’s vaccine mandate has caused controversy within the union, with many workers expressing frustration that GM does not have the same rules in place for its U.S. facilities. Unifor members have also staged protests against the mandate, which called for the union to push back against the clampdown.
Stellantis plans to implement a vaccine mandate at its Canadian facilities by the New Year, while Ford’s will take hold on January 3rd.
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Stupidity has a price ! Protecting your fellow workers definitely takes priority over your non existent right to infect others !
You can stay at home and and be an anti vax hero in your own mind !
Yes and you must be paying that price Robert. Because both vaccinated and unvaccinated infect people the same. One might argue vacc people infect more due to the fact they show no symptoms and will not alter their routine accordingly. Therefore spreading it when they are sick.
And very little people speaking out of where this virus came from and not punishing them very severely so this NEVER happens again! Once again China is given a pass because of politicians in bed with the CCP involving billions of dollars! Wake up people before it is too late!
Good lord this entire thread is so full of misinformation on BOTH sides of the debate. It would be nice to see at least one poster here approach the issue from (at least a somewhat) objective position and try to look at the entire picture. Rather, we have most everyone pre-picking a side (likely out of fear or impact on your personal life), picking up factiods or other garbage that confirm your pre-chosen bias, and parroting them here as if you actually know what you are talking about. Seriously. You really don’t. We are all part of a modern pandemic, a new revolutionary vaccine technology (very different modes of action than any prior vaccine used on humans), and there simply isn’t enough data collected yet for anyone to know for certain just about anything anyone here claims to “know for certain”. Make your choice, weight the risks, try to absorb the information and filter the garbage out the best you can but PLEASE – do you your part in NOT causing division and sewing hate! At a time when human connection is needed MOST, not only because of this shitty virus but because many modern societies create division, we need to not engage in things that break connection! If a person cannot have a healthy discussion, and consider others’ views, then don’t have the discussion at all. It will only hurt both sides. Connection, not division!
Thousands of children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities are being DENIED ADEQUATE SUPPORT STAFF in hospitals due to illogical, unreasonable and unnecessary requirements to be vaccinated or show testing. The REALITY is many support staff that accompany people with autism and other disabilities DO NOT HAVE TIME to get a test that makes them WAIT 48 or 72 hours, okay? WAKE UP TO REALITY PEOPLE!!! People with autism depend on their support staff to protect and advocate for them in hospital settings that are notorious for neglecting and abusing vulnerable patients with autism and other special needs. Therefore it’s a matter of health and safety to ALLOW support staff in the hospital to protect and help them! While it’s perfectly understandable to require support staff wear masks, wash hands and adhere to infection control protocols, it is NOT reasonable or rational to prevent ANY support staff for vulnerable patients to not enter hospital given these patients very lives DEPEND on their support staff who know them and can aid hospital staff in helping and protecting these patients. Therefore, in the interest of public safety, in the interest of protecting our MOST VULNERABLE populations we must advocate that every state provide exemptions for home health SUPPORT STAFF that MUST accompany vulnerable patients with autism or down syndrome or any other developmental disability. ARE YOU AWARE that there are cases where hospitals have DENITED support staff entry to accompany an autistic patient and that patient was TOO MUCH for the hospital staff, and that patient ended up pulling off intubation tubes or jumping off the hospital bed or eating pillows or having seizures that went unnoticed by some RN’s in the hospital? Or how about vulnerable patients with special needs who are denied their support staff and end up having elevated behavioral issues in the hospital and then have to get unnecessarily physically or chemically restrained because they were DENIED their support staff? The need for support staff to accompany our most vulnerable patients in the community—patients who can suffer preventable harm without support staff— far outweighs the risk of covid in the community. Children and adults with special needs have been secretly HARMED and abused on hospital settings when their SUPPORT staff is denied entrance into hospitals due to irrational and unreasonable covid policies. Some support staff have testified they were denied entrance into hospitals to protect their home health patients because they were “unvaccinated’ yet support staff that were allowed in and were FULLY VACCINATED later got covid and were never tested or denied entrance. The solution is make an exemption for ANY SUPPORT STAFF to enter a hospital during this so called pandemic and be ExEMPT from any testing or vaccine requirement because the pervasive and critical need for support staff to PROTECT the health and safety of our most vulnerable citizens far exceeds the ever changing acute ambiguous guidelines for covid. So long as we don’t have support staff refusing to comply with masks and infection control as in washing hands coming into hospitals they should be ALLOWED to come in since we were told masks and hand washing and basic infection control will stop the spread. Any support staff that refuse to wear masks should be barred. Therefore, if the support staff for vulnerable patients adhere and agree to masks hand sanitation should be allowed to protect vulnerable patients. That’s fair, reasonable and rational.