The Times Argus featured a front-page story about the Scott Administration launching a review of the State’s response to last Friday’s shooter report at the Tax Department in Montpelier. In the story, Secretary of the Administration Suzanne Young is quoted, saying:
“With any situation like this that occurred on Friday, there already is an after-action review being conducted. There are going to be meetings held, both external and internal, with the law enforcement who responded, with state employees who were impacted, with our emergency coordinators in all of the buildings."
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VSEA Judiciary members have been bringing concerns to management and lawmakers for years about safety and security in Vermont’s courthouses, and a story in today’s Times Argus only serves to bolster their case.
VSEA heard from members in Barre that, for a time, there was no security in the courthouse yesterday, and the reason why was in today’s story:
"That shortage also forced [Washington County Sheriff Samuel Hill] to completely give up security screening at the Washington County courthouse. There are usually two deputies at the entrance to the courthouse: one working the scanner and the other with the handheld metal detector."
Note: Not acceptable!
VSEA Press Release (Oct. 2015) on courthouse security concerns.
VSEA Judiciary members have been bringing concerns to management and lawmakers for years about safety and security in Vermont’s courthouses, and a story in today’s Times Argus only serves to bolster their case.
VSEA heard from members in Barre that, for a time, there was no security in the courthouse yesterday, and the reason why was in today’s story:
"That shortage also forced [Washington County Sheriff Samuel Hill] to completely give up security screening at the Washington County courthouse. There are usually two deputies at the entrance to the courthouse: one working the scanner and the other with the handheld metal detector."
Note: Not acceptable!
VSEA Press Release (Oct. 2015) on courthouse security concerns.
An official with the National Right-To-Work Foundation (based in Virginia) polluted some Vermont online and newspaper commentary pages this past weekend with a column demonizing unions and parroting corporate America’s anti-union talking points. In response, Vermont firefighter Christopher Maloney punched back in the following commentary that published this morning in the Times Argus:
The Perspective piece Mark Mix of the National Right To Work Committee in the weekend edition of the Argus pretty much served to confirm what I’ve known all along, that they are owned, bag and baggage, by conservative interests bent on making sure U.S. labor is paid cheaply and used thoroughly.
The scree Mix continues to mouth about how union labor is out to bankrupt the American worker by making nonunion workers pay union dues, is ridiculous and easy to disprove, should anyone pick up a calculator.
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