VSEA issued the following press release today:
After Shumlin Administration negotiators showed little interest last week in working with three Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) Bargaining Teams to try and reach new agreements (based on recommendations in a fact-finder’s report), the VSEA Teams were left with no option but to take the contract to the next step in the process; the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB).
“If you look closely at the last best offers each side submitted to the VLRB, you will see that we were really not that far apart on the most important issue, which is wages,” said VSEA President Dave Bellini.
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Sen. Anthony Pollina issued the following press release:
Pollina Wants Jobs to Stay in Vermont. Opposes Outsourcing of Workers Compensation Jobs
State Senator Anthony Pollina (PD Washington County) made the following statement opposing the eliminating of the Vermont Risk Assessment Division and outsourcing of Vermont jobs:
The Shumlin Administration’s plan to eliminate the State’s Risk Management Division is just bad policy, and will result in the loss of jobs and a weaker economy with no real benefit to the State.
We need to bring jobs into Vermont – not send jobs out of Vermont. There are real costs to sending jobs out of State. The proposal to outsource Risk Management makes no sense.
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On March 17, BGS’ Purchasing Division unsealed the bids from eight private, for-profit companies who want to take over workers’ comp, liability, etc. services from the State’s Risk Management Division. The State proposed cutting the Division and its dozen-plus workers as part of its budget package. VSEA members in the Division have been fighting back for months now at the State House, and now they will be able to openly question why lawmakers would want to contract these services to an out-of-state firm, driven by profit.
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The Vermont-NEA released the following statement in solidarity with VSEA members. Thank you for the support Vermont NEA!
State’s largest union calls for state to return to table and reach quick, fair settlement
MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont-NEA’s 12,000 members stand in solidarity with their brothers and sisters of the Vermont State Employees Association in their quest to reach a fair settlement with the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin.
“As fellow public employees, we stand with the thousands of Vermont state workers who have so far been unable to convince the administration to reach a fair settlement, despite months of negotiating and compromising,” said Martha Allen, a K-12 librarian from Canaan, who serves as Vermont-NEA’s president. “It is long past time for the state to get back to the table. We urge the administration to do so.”
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