Top Stories This Week:
Read the entire newsletter here!
Subscribe to Week In Action here!
It’s been widely reported across our state that Vermont’s State Colleges’ system is in trouble due to chronic underfunding by the State and lawmakers. In fact, Vermont is dead last in the nation, with respect to funding for our state colleges’ system.
To demonstrate how much our State Colleges mean to Vermonters, VSEA is urging members, retirees and the public to sign the union’s online petition, which calls on State officials and lawmakers to immediately increase VSC funding.
Do you want to help collect signatures? Just download the PDF petition here and return it to VSEA HQ. Thanks!!
VSEA Labor Relations Director Gary Hoadley posted a summary of the tentative agreement to VSEA’s website. As always, members can read Hoadley’s summary in the "Members Only" section of VSEA.org. Only registered users can view it. Register Here
After logging in to VSEA.org, registered members can navigate to the “Quick Links” panel in the left-hand column of VSEA.org. From there select “Negotiation Notes”. You can also access this section of the website directly here.
Click here to be redirected to the download page…
Did you know? Defined benefit plans are safer and more reliable for Vermont’s retirees & are cheaper for taxpayers than risky, Wall St 401(k)-style plans. Learn more about the differences between defined benefit pension plans and defined contribution pension plans (a.k.a. 401K) here.
