Union Pacific, BNSF suspend COVID-19 vaccine mandates

A photograph of a BNSF locomotive and a Union Pacific locomotive.

Union Pacific and BNSF are both putting on hold requirements that all of their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19. 

The railroads had sought to issue companywide mandates because they are federal contractors and as a result, they needed to comply with a September presidential executive order requiring federal employees and contractors to be vaccinated. 

But a Tuesday decision by Judge R. Stan Baker with the U.S. District Court in Georgia called for a stay of the vaccine mandate for federal...

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