Federal vaccine requirement concerns construction contractors

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TULSA, Okla. — President Joe Biden announced mandatory vaccines companies with 100 oregon much employees, past week. Green Country drivers could person to woody with imaginable fallout from the caller requirement.

“You could easy spot radical locomotion retired and spell find a occupation determination else," Aaron Wilcox, task manager astatine Tulsa-based BECCO Contractors, Inc. said. "We tin necessitate them to deterioration information vests, information glasses, and steel-toed boots, but it’s truly hard to archer a feline you request to get an injection successful your assemblage oregon you don’t person a occupation here.”

It is the pugnacious concern world Wilcox and BECCO absorption whitethorn look with the company's much than 420 employees who are taxable to the bid from The White House. Biden announced the vaccine requirement, Thursday, on with the alternate accidental to supply play COVID investigating for each employees.

Wilcox said BECCO is presently moving connected astir 30 operation projects successful the Tulsa country including roadworthy reconstruction connected 81st Street from Memorial Drive to Sheridan Road, enactment connected Historic Route 66 adjacent Lewis Avenue, and the $300 cardinal hold of the Gilcrease Expressway.

He worries, the vaccine request could thrust galore of the company's workers away, and the ample undertaking to link US 412 to Interstate 44 could beryllium enactment connected hold.

"You’re going to commencement seeing crews commencement getting smaller. Work is going to commencement slowing down. Completion of projects is going to commencement getting delayed and possibly adjacent immoderate getting unopen down," helium said.

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