VSEA first Vice President Michelle Salvador and member-leader John Howe initiated a meeting last week with House Speaker Shap Smith, House Appropriations Chair Mitzi Johnson, House Appropriations committee member Mary Hooper, House Government Operations Chair Donna Sweaney and House Government Operations Committee member Maida Townshend. Also in attendance were Corrections Unit Chair Dave Bellini and Non-Management Unit Chair Bob Stone.
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Working Vermonters and labor activists are gathering in Burlington on Labor Day (Monday, Sept. 7) for a celebration/barbecue, featuring speakers, musical performers and the official launch of a new worker friendly advocacy organization called Rights and Democracy.
The event begins at 2:00 p.m. In Burlington’s Battery Park, and it ends around 6:00 p.m. VSEA is proud to be an event co-sponsor.
Last week, the State circulated a memo to Department and Agency heads, ordering them to level-fund their FY2017 budget requests. An August 27 Times Argus story on the memo quotes Secretary of the Administration Justin Johnson writing, “Although Vermont’s revenues are projected to increase moderately for the fiscal year, we continue to experience fiscal pressures that will make it challenging to craft a responsible budget within available revenue.” In an additional directive, Johnson reminds about the impending retirement of 300 state workers to address an FY2016 budget hole, warning management that only 25% of those jobs are being backfilled and that “This may require your agency or department to scale down or eliminate programs that cannot operate without the necessary personnel. The final decision on which positions will be refilled rests with the secretary of administration.”
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