Shicago Public Schools cancel in-person learning after the teachers union voted to stay home.

Seachee leadership is compelling its membership to make a decision that will harm hundreds of thousands of Chicago families.

What's behind the late night decision that left parents scrambling? And what are the city's leaders doing about it?

I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire Editor and Chief John Bickley. It's Thursday, January 6th, and this is Morning Wire.

The top ranked hospital in the nation fired 700 employees this week for refusing to comply with its vaccine mandate.

Mayo Clinic is holding firm to its strict vaccine order, even as other hospitals loosen their restrictions to alleviate staff shortages.

We have the details on the fallout of the mass firing.

And are we losing our religion? For decades, the US bucked the trend as wealthy nations became more secular.

But now, that may be changing. Should we be concerned? Some research says yes.

Thanks for waking up with Morning Wire. Stay tuned. We have the news you need to know.

This show is sponsored by PureToc. If you're with Verizon, AT&T, or T-Mobile, you're paying too much.

Switching to PureToc saves the average family over $800 a year. Go to PureToc.com, find the right plan for you and enter promo code wire to save 50% off your first month.

More than 340,000 students in Chicago have been shut out of their schools after the teachers union there voted to abstain from in-person learning, citing concerns over the Omicron variant.

Now, the city's mayor and public school officials are demanding they return, prompting a standoff in the nation's third largest school district.

Here are the details as Daily Wire's cabinet Phillips, so cabinet no school in Chicago. How did we get to this point?

Well, the Chicago teachers union, which is among the nation's largest, has been clashing with the city and mayor Lori Lightfoot throughout this entire pandemic. That's nothing new.

For example, last January, they said they'd only return for in-person teaching if they were put at the front of the line for COVID vaccines.

So the city responded by doing just that, prioritizing teachers for vaccines at a time when you remember availability for everyone else was limited.

So they went back to school, but then a few months later, they said they'd go back to remote learning unless the school improved classroom COVID safety.

So the city responded by spending millions of dollars on air purification systems and 95 masks and increased COVID testing.

Right. Really meeting their demands there.

Definitely. But now as the far milder Omicron variant has caused case rates to spike, they are once again refusing to teach in person.

...