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After a very successful membership-recruitment initiative this fall, VSEA is excited to announce a new membership drive for the next quarter. Never forget that ongoing recruitment is vital to the strength of your union!
Every time you recruit a new member during the designated period, your name is entered into a drawing. Four names will be pulled at random and winners will receive a check for $100.00!
Need a quick reference to help with your recruiting? You can view an informational webpage with some recruitment tips and advice here.
Learn more or download flyers here…
Here is a letter that several of VSEA’s Woodside members collectively penned that posted Wednesday evening to VTDigger. Steve Howard referenced it on a recent Vermont Edition on VPR. The workers’ letter will help you understand a little better where they are coming from in their defense of Woodside and the service they provide.
Update 12/3/2019: DCF Commissioner Apologizes For Press Directive To Woodside Workers
Their backs to the wall after the Scott Administration made it known last week that it wants to shutter the Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center, DCF management wasted no time emailing VSEA members working at the facility to remind them of the department’s policy about talking with the press–which is not to, without the department’s blessing, of course.
Members of the VSEA Election, Rules and Nominating (ERN) Committee were at VSEA headquarters on Monday, November 25 to certify the tentative-agreement vote count and announce that members of the union’s Non-Management, Corrections and Supervisory Units have all overwhelmingly ratified a new, two-year contract.
"We’re happy the contract was passed–and by a large margin," said VSEA President Dave Bellini, himself a Corrections employee. "I want to thank the rank-and-file VSEA bargaining team members who negotiated the agreements for all your hard work and time."
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