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HANOVER, Md. (WJZ) — Fighting for aesculapian freedom, dozens of demonstrators lined up extracurricular Northrop Grumman’s BWI determination Monday greeting with American flags successful manus to protestation against the company’s vaccine mandate.
“I consciousness mandates successful wide upon escaped citizens of this state is unconstitutional and if it starts here, erstwhile does it end?” said Michael Drodes.
“Thought it was my body, my choice. Lets go,” said Oliva Ravadge.
This comes a week aft the institution said each workers request to beryllium afloat vaccinated by Dec. 8 successful enactment with the national vaccine mandate.
“We should not beryllium forced to enactment thing successful our assemblage that we don’t privation to and we’re going to basal down that,” said Ravadge.
If workers don’t get vaccinated, they could suffer their jobs and that’s not sitting good with some.
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“We’re not anti-vax. We’re not anti-Northup Grumman. We’re conscionable pro-choice,” said Garth Bonbargen.
Protestors accidental they conscionable privation their voices to beryllium heard and to terminate the mandate.
“We anticipation that this mandate gets lifted and it turns into our prime arsenic it should person been from the beginning,” said Ravadge. “We should not beryllium forced, it should beryllium our prime from the precise opening and our jobs should not beryllium connected the enactment due to the fact that of it.”
A spokesperson for Northrop Grumman’s told WJZ, “the institution remains committed to continuous operations to guarantee they present connected their commitments to its customers.”
Another protestation is scheduled for adjacent Monday, Oct. 25 adjacent the Sykesville Northrop Grumman location.
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Amy Kawata
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