"These are the same employees who risked their lives performing essential duties such as policing and working corrections jobs when the COVID-19 pandemic was at its absolute peak," Lyons said. "These workers showed up and dutifully performed their jobs despite the threat, only to be rewarded with an authoritarian ultimatum from Gov. Baker: submit to the vaccine, or you're fired."
Lyons's comments came after the Baker administration's state employee vaccine deadline mandate landed.
According to the Boston Herald, about 5,000 state workers are now at risk of suspension or termination as a result of the Baker administration's mandate.
