Judiciary Unit Bargaining Update – December 18, 2015
On Friday, December 18th, we met in Burlington to finalize non-financial proposals and hammer out the bulk of the financial proposals.
Weekly News From Your Union: December 18, 2015
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In this week’s issue:
- VSEA Members Conduct “Worker Safety” Action
- DCF Workers Continue To Meet With Lawmakers In Advance Of Session
- Alerted To Risk Of Privatization, Group Of VSEA Members Mobilizing To Defend Their Service
- Auditor’s Findings Answer VSEA Members’ Question: Are Taxpayers Getting Maximum Bang For Their Buck When State Contracts With Private Vendors?
- VSEA Chapter President Pens Letter To The Editor: Support Your Road Workers
- and more…
Pat Gabel Security Committee Letter
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VSEA Worker Safety Action
With just a few short weeks until the beginning of the 2016 legislative session, VSEA members conducted an action on December 15 to highlight many state employees’ desire for enhanced workplace safety protections.
Press Coverage:
VTDigger: "State workers rally for safety"
WCAX: "Vt. lawmakers discuss safety of state workers"
DCF Workers Meet Personally With Governor Shumlin On Safety
VSEA released the following to the press this afternoon:
A small group of VSEA DCF social workers met personally in Montpelier this afternoon with Governor Shumlin to thank him for his recent announcement about budgeting money for new DCF hires and to urge him to do even more to enhance safety for social workers and for Vermonters visiting DCF offices statewide. They also gave the Governor a list of the safety recommendations DCF frontline workers presented to the Joint Legislative Child Protection Oversight Committee on November 18.