CHICAGO (CBS)– Alderman will maintain a particular City Council assembly in an try and get Mayor Lori Lightfoot to vary her vaccine mandate for metropolis staff.

The assembly includes 11 aldermen who’re pushing for the change.

All metropolis employees have been supposed get their first dose of the COVID vaccine as of Sunday or be positioned on non-disciplinary, no pay standing. 

Lightfoot now says metropolis employees have till April 13 to get their second COVID shot. 

City knowledge exhibits greater than 2,000 staff are nonetheless noncompliant.

The 11 alderman need to embody pure COVID immunity as a reporting possibility for metropolis staff, together with testing.

Lightfoot has known as as we speak’s assembly a “stunt.”

“It’s not a stunt, it’s a reaction to her own abrasive behavior and refusing to be collaborative…,” Ald. Ray Lopez (fifteenth Ward) mentioned. 

Lightfoot added that she won’t attend Wednesday’s special meeting which is about for two p.m.