More than 20 union workers at Blue Cross Blue Shield and one of its subsidiaries are now on unpaid leave because they didn’t meet the company’s requirement to get the Covid vaccine.
Labor attorney Shawndrica Simmons says, if a company has federal contracts, it’s beholden to federal mandates like the one issued by the Biden administration requiring companies with more than 100 employees to require the vaccine or weekly testing.
“If what they’re saying that they are a federal contractor is true, then by all means you’ve got to follow the law. But when the stay was put on that mandate last Tuesday we have thought that the company would have stopped but they didn’t,” said Amy Castinon of the UAW Amalgamated Local 2256.”
More than 20 unvaccinated workers from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, AF Group placed on unpaid leave
