NEW YORK — A group of anti-vaccine municipal workers in New York City launched a last-minute effort to avoid getting fired Friday as Mayor Eric Adams said other vaccine-resistant employees were finally getting the jab.
Claiming that the rules violate their “fundamental religious and constitutional rights,” the vaccine opponents asked a Brooklyn federal judge to temporarily bar the city from firing workers who haven’t been vaccinated. Similar lawsuits filed by city workers against the vaccine mandate have flopped in court.
As plaintiffs including a NYPD officer, a FDNY rescue medic and employees of other agencies sought to make their case in court, Adams stuck by the mandate, which was created by his predecessor Bill de Blasio.
