October 6, 2022
In response to numerous requests, VSEA President Aimee Towne called a meeting on Tuesday, October 4 to allow attending VSEA members to vote on whether or not a dues proposal agreed to at Annual Meeting would be accepted or would it be changed. In order to change the adopted dues proposal, members attending this meeting would need to vote to rescind the proposal and that is what they did–by a wide margin.
Instead, members attending Tuesday’s meeting voted to adopt dues proposal one, which reads:
Maintaining current minimum and percentage but raising the maximum: Dues will be set at 0.9% of an employees’ hourly payrate, multiplied by their standard hours per pay period, with a minimum of $16 and a maximum of $24. This proposal would result in a dues increase for some members.
“More than 100 members participated in Tuesday night’s special meeting, which is more than twice the amount that attended and voted at Annual Meeting,” says Towne. “Annual Meetings have long been an opportunity for members to gather to take care of the union’s business. I think it may be time to creatively rethink how we do business, which may mean a change to our bylaws.”
VSEA members are advised to ignore the previously announced dues change announcements and calculate your new dues rate using the formula spelled out above in the proposal.
If you have questions about the new dues structure, please contact VSEA by email at vsea@vsea.org. Write “Dues Question” in the subject line.