WORCESTER, VT – Longtime local resident Cheri Goldstein filed signatures by supporters yesterday in her bid for a seat in the Vermont House of Representatives. Goldstein has worked in public service for nearly three decades including serving on the Worcester Selectboard and on the boards of several community organizations. Goldstein and her partner have adopted and raised eleven children in the Worcester community.
VSEA’s NMU, Supervisory and Corrections Units are just now emerging mostly victorious (losing the Risk Management Division with no apparent successor named, nor savings demonstrated, is a definite and unfortunate loss) months of very tough bargaining with the Shumlin Administration. Now your union’s Judiciary Unit is in a tough fight to secure a new contract agreement with Vermont Court Administrator, Patricia Gabel.
One particular group of Judiciary Unit employees, docket clerks, has been fighting for a reclassification and more pay for a long time now, and the Judiciary Unit Bargaining Team made their fight a bargaining priority for this round of negotiations, but, to date, Ms. Gabel is refusing to entertain the idea.
VSEA docket clerks decided to make a video to send a personal message to Ms. Gabel, and the workers are asking VSEA members to please share the video far and wide to educate Vermonters about their fight for a fair wage and reclassification.
VSEA Issued The Following Press Release This Morning:
Union Says Employee Safety Remains A Top Priority.
"Mixed in with dozens of other teams running in tonight’s Corporate Cup in Montpelier will be several teams of state employees, representing Department for Children and Families’ Family Services Division offices across Vermont, including one from the Barre DCF office, where Social Worker Lara Sobel was based and where she was tragically killed by a client in August 2015. All the teams will be wearing purple (Sobel’s favorite color) t-shirts, reading “Lara Sobel Strong” and “In Memory Of Lara Sobel. We Will Never Forget.”
