B.C. public servants filed a petition for injunction today in B.C. Supreme Court to stop their employer from terminating them over its proof of COVID-19 vaccination mandate.
“This letter is in response to the article entitled “Unvaccinated public servants who face firing want mandate quashed” that appeared in the Victoria Times Colonist on February 8, 2022. As editor, there are a few comments as well as errors in the article we would like to bring to your attention.”
The world has reached a turning point in the COVID-19 saga. Many jurisdictions including England, Saskatchewan and our closest neighbour, Alberta, are beginning to recognize the error of COVID-19 restrictions and mandates and are moving to abolish proof of vaccination requirements and vaccine passports for healthcare workers and the public alike. Increasingly, medical experts and scientists are coming to the conclusion that vaccines are tools, not silver bullets, and that other public health approaches must be taken to deal with COVID19.
B.C. public servants are calling for an end to the proof of COVID-19 vaccination mandate for provincial government workers. The group’s spokesperson is hopeful that there is a shift in the way their employer sees the current situation with the pandemic winding down, and that Wanamaker will hear their appeal to return to work.
Let’s tell our government officials that we are not okay with vaccine mandates going beyond this month. We will not stand by the divisiveness they have promoted and created.
“The families I work with will be the ones most impacted as I know it will be another 6 months for my replacement, if they are lucky. “
“As the BCGEU President, you are responsible for addressing problems affecting the union’s members, responding and engaging with all members and developing concrete strategies through direct consultation. We respectfully request you fulfill those responsibilities to this group regarding the concern(s) we raise herein.”………
“The human rights and informed consent law that I have summarized in this letter, is very longstanding and oft-applied in Canada. This law will not be overthrown by the hasty ideological decisions of human rights tribunals and transitory governments chasing the passing winds of public opinion in these turbulent times.”
On November 7, 2021 workers across sectors gathered in Victoria, Nelson, William’s Lake, Kelowna, and Vancouver to stand in solidarity against medical coercion.
“The country I come from also has a card system to control who could survive and how, and who will be condemned to death or isolation just because of a different ideology. Everything started with stigma and discriminatory speech like the ones I hear these days in Canada.”
“The BC Public Service is an employer that touts diversity and inclusion and a gender-based analysis, unless it is inconvenient and doesn’t fit an agenda. “