Tyson expects that when OSHA outlines more details and a timeline for mandates, which could take weeks, more companies will announce vaccine requirements. Organized labor, which has tentatively welcomed Mr. Biden’s mandate, has become a crucial ally in efforts by firms like the Walt Disney Company and AT&T to vaccinate their workers. Tyson said it had been able to negotiate an agreement with the United Food and Commercial Workers union, which represents several thousand of its workers, to endorse the mandate in return for more benefits for all workers, like paid sick leave. Tyson said about 91 percent of its 31,000 unionized employees were vaccinated, matching the company’s overall rate. The vaccine mandate was part of Tyson’s larger effort to confront the virus, which ravaged its work force early in the pandemic.

Source: New York Times September 30, 2021 13:03 UTC