Friday 15 October 2021

Chicago mayor files complaint against police union for defying vaccine mandate

The city’s Fraternal Order of Police encouraged members to ignore the city’s vaccine requirement

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot has filed a complaint in court against Chicago’s largest police union and its president after the union issued a directive for officers to ignore a citywide mandate to report their vaccination status, the latest in a battle between government officials and first responders over vaccine mandates.

In a statement issued Friday morning, Lightfoot announced that she had instructed the city’s law department to file a complaint for injunctive relief against the Chicago chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police union and its president, John Catanzara, for actions the mayor regarded as encouraging an illegal strike.

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