On December 14, 澳门六合彩开奖预测 of America and two of its chapters, the Dallas-based TEXO chapter of the association, and the statewide 澳门六合彩开奖预测 of Texas chapter, filed suit in federal court to block the Biden administration鈥檚 effort to impose a COVID-19 vaccine mandate on federal contractors and subcontractors. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 noted that many of its members that regularly construct federal projects are already being harmed, as key employees leave for other jobs in the industry to avoid the strict federal mandate. 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 filing includes a motion for a temporary restraining order and statements from a number of contractors detailing the damages they have already begun to experience because of the new federal contractor vaccine mandate. That mandate is different from the broader vaccine mandate that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has sought to impose on all firms that employ 100 or more people. That rule gives workers the option to be tested weekly, instead of being vaccinated. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 filed a legal challenge against that 鈥渆mergency鈥 OSHA standard in November.
鈥淲e are as eager as anyone to see more construction workers become fully vaccinated,鈥 said Stephen E. Sandherr, the 澳门六合彩开奖预测鈥檚 chief executive officer. 鈥淏ut imposing a strict mandate on a small sector of the construction industry will only drive vaccine-hesitant workers out of that sector, and to one of the many other sectors also desperate for more workers.鈥
Sandherr added that even as the association challenges the administration鈥檚 two coronavirus vaccine mandates, it continues to work to encourage all construction workers to get vaccinated. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 recently released a series of featuring construction workers who nearly died from the virus, urging their peers to get vaccinated. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 has been urging its members to show the videos to all their workers and is also placing ads featuring the videos in key construction markets. 澳门六合彩开奖预测 also created a vaccine toolkit for the industry.
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