Dear SHARE members,
As the hospital’s deadline for employees to get vaccinated gets closer, over 85% of SHARE members have either been vaccinated or approved for a medical or religious exemption. That leaves a few hundred SHARE members who are not “in compliance” with the mandate. If you are one of them, then this is for you.
If you have not been vaccinated and don’t have an exemption and you want help thinking about your options, we encourage you to reach out to your SHARE staff organizer or email SHARE.
It is clear at this point that there will be a vaccine mandate. SHARE has been working to negotiate about how it impacts SHARE members, but we are not finding the hospital to be very flexible in altering the approach that it has laid out. As negotiators and as friends to many of you, this is frustrating to us, as we know it is to all SHARE members who face important decisions over the next couple weeks. Regardless of whether you’ve been vaccinated, we know what you’ve given to our hospital and community, especially since the onset of COVID.
We are trying to help individual members who are reluctant to get vaccinated by listening, asking questions, and providing the information we have. We won’t try to tell anyone what to do, but we will support all SHARE members as they decide for themselves what they want to do.
in solidarity,
The SHARE staff