Startling allegations of retaliation and discrimination against workers who have chosen not to receive the COVID-19 vaccination at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have come to light, prompting the public interest group New Mexico Stands Up! to come to the aide of “a large group of employees” that demand their employer to cease and desist.
In May, employees alleged LANL was running a 'coercion campaign' to force workers to get the COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Piñon Post.
Workers who are unwilling to be vaccinated accuse LANL of creating an unbearably hostile work environment.
"This includes being kept in a segregated area and not being allowed to join in certain socializing events," New Mexico Stands Up! wrote in a cease and desist notice addressed to Thomas Mason, the laboratory director for LANL. "This is not acceptable.”
The formal notice demands that all mandates pertaining to wearing masks, being tested for COVID-19, and being vaccinated for COVID-19 as a condition of employment, ends immediately.
The public interest group claims such mandates are a violation of state and federal law and they are threatening to file lawsuits against the company if any employees are reprimanded or terminated for not adhering to the mandates.
The New Mexico Stands Up! group contests that even though testing, vaccinations, and masks are all authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under “Emergency Use Authorization,” it does not equal being approved by the Department.
"...Under an Emergency Use Authorization, an EUA, vaccines are not allowed to be mandatory. So, early in this vaccination phase, individuals will have to be consented and they won’t be able to be mandated,” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) chief medical officer of the National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases said in a video.
The public interest group also presented data showing more than 463,000 people have experienced adverse affects from the vaccine and information from Dr. Peter McCullough, vice chief of internal medicine at Baylor University that claims at least 50,000 people in the U.S. have died due to complications in relation to the COVID-19 vaccine.
The CDC is reported as saying that testing and vaccinating people who do not wish to be is not only unethical, but illegal, according to Pinon Post.