More than 240 Chicago police personnel have lost pay over COVID-19 vaccine rules, with 83 currently stripped of powers for noncompliance – Chicago Tribune*
Now the city is taking a victory lap over an arbitrator’s recent ruling that several unions, including the one representing firefighters, must adhere to Lightfoot’s vaccination policy.
No wonder the city is a mess – when you treat guardians so poorly. Too much institutional knowledge is being lost with every early retirement and termination. Why for? A failed vaccine with unknown long-term effects?
For good reasons morale is at all-time low and they’re lowering the bar for recruits.
They couldn’t have planned the downfall of a great city any better.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
No wonder the city is a mess – when you treat guardians so poorly. Too much institutional knowledge is being lost with every early retirement and termination. Why for? A failed vaccine with unknown long-term effects?
For good reasons morale is at all-time low and they’re lowering the bar for recruits.
They couldn’t have planned the downfall of a great city any better.