Author: VSEAUnite

Fact-Finder’s Report Leads To Tentative Agreement

November 30, 2016  11:48 am

VSEA Issued The Following Press Release This Morning:

After eleven months of difficult negotiations and less than a week after the release of a Fact Finder’s report, frontline Judiciary workers belonging to the Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) returned to the table with the Court Administrator on Tuesday and were able to reach a tentative agreement.
 
“VSEA members worked very hard to ensure our collective voices were heard over a very long and tough bargaining process,” explains VSEA Judiciary Unit Chair Margaret Crowley. “The agreement reached yesterday will help us support ourselves and our families and will also help ensure that the Judiciary community is strong and that there is a culture of mutual respect. We are excited to now take this tentative agreement to the full Judiciary membership for a ratification vote.”
 
VSEA is not yet releasing full details of the tentative agreement, pending the upcoming ratification vote by Judiciary Unit members. 

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VSEA Judiciary Unit Members Very Pleased With Fact-Finder’s Report

November 22, 2016  2:21 pm

VSEA Issued The Following Press Release This Afternoon:

Members of the Vermont State Employees’ Association’s (VSEA) Judiciary Unit are cheering the overall recommendations contained in a long-awaited, fact-finder’s report that was delivered this morning to the union. VSEA’s Judiciary Unit members have been in a tough contract battle with the Court Administrator since December 2015.
 
“On the bargaining issues most important to our Unit, we were very pleased to read that the fact finder agreed with us that docket clerks deserve more pay and we all deserve to have a fair reclassification process,” explains VSEA Judiciary Unit Chair Margaret Crowley.

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