Tens of thousands of people have urged the UK government to apologise, reinstate, and compensate care workers who were forced out of their jobs by a covid-19 vaccine mandate, according to campaign group Together. By Friday, more than 23,000 people had signed a petition published by the group on Monday, calling on Prime Minister Liz Truss and Health Secretary Thérèse Coffey to reconcile with the approximately 40,000 social care workers who lost their jobs after refusing to take the jabs.
The civil liberty group, which started in 2021 as a campaign against covid-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates, published a letter on the same day when Janine Small, Pfizer’s president of international developed markets, told the European Parliament that the company’s covid-19 vaccine had not been tested for its effectiveness on stopping transmission before it entered the market.
The letter said the mandate, introduced by former Health Secretary Sajid Javid, was “wrong in principle, and wrong in practice,” arguing that by the time the mandate came into effect in November 2021, it had been “clear that covid jabs did not prevent transmission.”