VSEA Files Motion With Vermont Labor Relations Board To Dismiss Shumlin Administration’s “Last-Best-Offer”
VSEA issued the following press release today:
The Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) has filed a formal motion with the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB) to dismiss the Shumlin Administration’s contract “last-best-offer” to thousands of VSEA’s Non-Management, Corrections and Supervisory Unit members.
VSEA’s motion “is based on the fact that the State’s submission includes a new proposal to carve the State Police Lieutenants out of the 1% and 1.25% across-the-board increases to be paid to every other employee in all of the three VSEA units, and to pay the Lieutenants only a .5% increase per year. This new proposal introduces a substantial new dispute that would have been highly controversial even standing on its own, but that also has the potential, if it were accepted, of fundamentally changing how wage negotiations are conducted in all three units.