Each spring, the VSEA Awards & Scholarship Committee solicits scholarship applications from VSEA members and their spouses, dependents and domestic partners. The application process is easy, requiring the applicant to write a couple of short essays as well as provide a grade history, employment history, personal references and a few other things.
All applications received before May 8, 2019, will be reviewed by Committee members, who will then decide from among all this year’s eligible candidates who is awarded a 2019 VSEA scholarship.
Winners will be announced at the VSEA Council’s June 2019 meeting.
Calling all VSEA members! The 2019 membership drive has commenced! Become an active recruiter for your union—and you might be rewarded for your efforts. Never forget that ongoing recruitment is vital to the strength of your union.
Learn more here…
VSEA Department of Health member Erin O’Keefe recently agreed to go on camera with WPTZ when they reached out to her to appear in a story about Vermont’s new infants-in-the-workplace program, which O’Keefe was approved to participate in. However, O’Keefe is concerned that much of what she told the reporter, including a staunch defense of VSEA’s position that the policy must be bargained, did not make it in the story. Instead, she is quoted saying she "respects" VSEA’s position, which, while the only soundbite used in the story, is not at all the only message O’Keefe delivered to the reporter.
O’Keefe wants VSEA members and retirees to know what she actually told the reporter, and we’re happy to share her message with you. Read her message here.
