Buffalo, NY (WBEN) After a walkout last month to protest federal vaccine mandates, employees at Moog are taking legal action to put an end to what they call an overreach by the government.
“Hundreds of Moog employees are deeply saddened that our company has chosen not to fight alongside us,” employee Matt Scheiber said. “John Scannell, CEO of Moog, said in a video message this is not a decision he would have made if given a choice. Based on the response from their attorney after we gave them a choice, we see this is simply not true.”
Schieber says in October Moog announced a requirement all employees must be vaccinated against the coronavirus and that the company will place any unvaccinated employees on unpaid leave until they comply, ultimately terminating them in January 2022. A few days later, they staged a walkout in protest.
The mandate came after the federal government in September ordered all federal workers be vaccinated by December 8.
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Last week, Schieber says a Moog attorney said “The management of Moog will not join, endorse, or support the bringing of a lawsuit to challenge the vaccination mandate as currently being implemented and imposed on federal contractors. We will adhere to contract requirements.”
Schieber says the employees will file lawsuits to defend their rights and to protect themselves from illegal termination. The employees are represented by attorneys Todd Aldinger and Ralph Lorigo of Lorigo Law in West Seneca, New York.
