New York City municipal workers protested in the thousands on Monday against a looming vaccine mandate as the deadline looms for about 160,500 city employees, including for first responders, to get a first dose of the COVID-19 jab. The expanded mandate means a total of more than 300,000 city employees will be hit with vaccine mandates by Nov. 1. The thousands of protesters met in Brooklyn before marching peacefully across the Brooklyn Bridge. They proceeded to City Hall in Manhattan. The protesters, including a large presence of police and firefighters, carried large American flags and multiple signs and banners. “Workers are essential, mandates are not,” one sign reads. Another said, “No jab for my job.” The protest comes after Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a sweeping mandate last week requiring the entire municipal workforce to have at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine by Nov. 1. The new mandate replaced what was …
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