To confirm this, Fox News revealed that Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), talked with several union leaders one day before tightening school masking guidelines.
The Biden Administration tightened the school masking guidance last May following the National Education Association (NEA), the country’s largest teachers union, had threatened White House officials with publicly firing harsh denouncement.
Walensky’s calendar reveals that she contacted unions beyond the NEA before the guideline’s release, also illustrating the Administration’s coziness with unions throughout its COVID-19 pandemic guidance process.
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“At every turn, the CDC has told the American people that they have followed the science, but with every record we receive, we see further proof that the CDC keeps turning to teacher's unions for guidance instead,” announced Caitlin Sutherland, executive director of Americans for Public Trust, who provided Walensky’s calendar to Fox News Digital.
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“A supposedly science-based agency should absolutely not be consulting with union boss Randi Weingarten before making important public messaging decisions that impact the lives of children and adults alike,” Sutherland stated. “It's been almost a year since we filed a lawsuit to force the CDC to reveal the true extent that they’ve allowed politics to influence health policy, and Americans have yet to receive full transparency.”
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The CDC declared on May 13, 2021, that completely vaccinated Americans could stop wearing masks indoors and outside, which ignited confusion regarding how this policy would apply to schools. One day later, on May 14, Erika Dinkel-Smith, the White House director of labor engagement, announced she stopped the NEA from releasing a critical statement that had called for immediate clarification.
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“Would you know when Dr. Wolensky would be able to call NEA-Pres. Becky Pringle?” Dinkel-Smith wrote in the email. “They've gotten significant incoming and are getting targeted for a response from the media. I’ve gotten them to hold on their statement calling for clarification.”
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That same day, Dinkel-Smith received the NEA’s draft statement, enabling them to weigh in on it. Following discussion and coordination with the Biden White House, the NEA announced with a much less critical tone.
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After ignoring a previous inquiry on the emails, Pringle brushed off the report as “no secret” that her union wants to keep “students and schools safe” in a message she posted on Twitter.
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In addition to speaking with Pringle, Walensky held phone meetings with many other union heads that day, her calendar shows.
On May 14, Walensky further spoke to American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, Service Employees International Union President Mary Kay Henry, United Food and Commercial Workers International Union President Marc Perrone, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees President Lee Saunders, and Bonnie Castillo, President of the AFL-CIO affiliated National Nurses Union, the calendar reveals.
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