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VSEA’s Elections, Rules and Nominating Committee Chair Rubin Jennings sent a note to VSEA’s State Housing Authority Unit members today, informing them that they had voted unanimously to approve a new, two-year contract with the State. With the vote to ratify, the State Housing Authority becomes the sixth Bargaining Unit to reach agreement. The only Unit yet to reach agreement is VSEA’s Judiciary Unit, which is still in tough bargaining, awaiting a fact-finder’s report.
Congratulations to VSEA’s State Housing Authority Unit!
Since taking office, State Auditor Doug Hoffer and his staff have been shining a spotlight on wasteful State spending, as well as the State’s failure to provide private contract checks and balances and instances where the State is failing to collect millions of what it is owed. VTDigger reported last week on the office’s latest audit, which found that nonprofit organization VITL (Vermont Information Technology Leaders) “has spent $38 million in state and federal money setting up a statewide system of electronic medical records, but officials can’t determine whether the project has been successful.”
Dustin Cota, a Program Services Clerk with the Department of Vermont Health Access, sent a note to VSEA to let his union know about a cost-savings measure he and his colleagues successfully implemented. Cota and his DVHA colleagues are still working out of the old IBM complex in Essex, which is why IBM and Global Foundries are mentioned in his story.
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