500 unvaxxed New York workers urge Trump admin to investigate their firings

Over 500 of the thousands of unlawfully terminated or displaced New York City and state workers who were forced out of their careers and businesses beginning in 2021 under the pretext of the COVID-19 shot mandate have sent a letter to newly appointed Assistant U.S. Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon requesting an investigation into their firings.

Their letter decries their forced terminations for “non-compliance with an unconstitutional COVID-19 vaccine mandate” that “was never voted on by any legislative body, nor ratified by any union membership via the proper collective bargaining process.”

“Assistant Attorney General Dhillon, there is no one waiting in the wings in New York to save the unlawfully terminated or displaced workers and business owners,” wrote the signatories. “The Department of Justice under the Trump Administration is our best hope. Please help us!”

Those who signed the letter include but are not limited to firefighters, police officers, teachers, social workers, sanitation workers, correction workers, members of the judiciary, medical doctors, nurses, scientists, doormen, and freelancers.

“Many workers who were not terminated were coerced into early retirement with a financial penalty, waived their labor rights, resigned or returned to work having lost seniority and without backpay,” explains the letter. “Others were forced to accept demotions, were denied promotions or lost job opportunities. In what can be considered an outright disregard of the law, many workers were not even served with a final notice of leave without pay, a charge or a termination notice prior to separation from their employment.”

“Despite the ending of the COVID-19 vaccine mandate, neither New York State nor New York City has done anything to get the experienced, tenured and valuable workers reinstated,” note the signatories. “Instead, the administrators who carried out the unlawful vaccine mandate continue to destroy the fabric of the workforce and deny the truth, which is that they deceptively took advantage of a public health scare to mass fire workers and destroy private businesses.”

In particular, they call out former Mayor Bill de Blasio, his then-Health Commissioner Dave Chokshi, his Mayoral Expert Advisor Jay Varma, Mayor Eric Adams, his former Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan, former Governor Andrew Cuomo, his then-Health Commissioner Howard Zucker, Governor Kathy Hochul, and her then-Health Commissioner Mary Bassett as only a few of the political leaders and health bureaucrats who violated their constitutional and labor rights.