Largest US National Nurses Union Opposes Mandatory Flu Vaccination as Condition of Employment

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Largest US National Nurses Union Opposes Mandatory Flu Vaccination as

Condition of Employment

Hospital-based registered nurses, who are members of National Nurses

United, will make a statement before the Health and Human Services

National Vaccine Advisory Committee in a public forum on Tuesday in

Washington, D.C. NNU RNs will speak in opposition to NVAC's

Recommendation #4, " Healthy People 2020 " , which mandates that

all healthcare providers receive a flu vaccination as a condition of

employment. NNU joins the Occupational Safety and Health Agency,

and other major healthcare unions and organizations, who say there is

insufficient evidence for the federal government to promote mandatory

influenza vaccination programs that might result in employment

termination. NNU is also calling on the pharmaceutical representatives

from Pfizer and Novartis, who are members of the NVAC, to recuse

themselves from any votes that take place on the issue of the mandatory

flu vaccine. The companies stand to make millions of dollars from flu

vaccine sal es. There are no nurses currently on the NVAC board. “It is

unfortunate that for-profit pharmaceutical companies were consulted in

this matter yet the voices of the nation’s direct-care hospital RNs have

gone unheard,” said NNU co-president Higgins, RN. “Nurses are

calling for an open process to explore the best way to protect patients

and healthcare workers, not one that is driven by corporate

profits.”

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