NYC Unions Take a Swing at the Mandate and Miss (But They’re Appealing)

The Municipal Labor Committee lost its case against the vaccine mandate for City employees. The gory details offer clues about what could happen next in this and other big cases.

A bunch of big COVID-19 vaccine mandate court cases have been making the news lately. There’s the Medical Professionals for Informed Consent case that attorney Sujata Gibson argued successfully to overturn the statewide mandate for New York health care workers.

There’s the one James Mermigis just filed against the NYC public sector mandate on behalf of 72 fired City workers. Mermigis’s petition asks for a cool $250 million in damages. 

Not to be outdone, Chad LaVeglia is asking for $117 million in a new federal suit on behalf of the same 16 Department of Sanitation workers who are waiting for the state appeals process to play out after they won against the City in October.

But there’s another big case that has flown under the radar. It was filed in October by the biggest of big union guns, the Municipal Labor Committee, and its …