VSEA members belonging to the Non-Management Unit have been sending in pictures of themselves all week. In the photos, members are holding signs of many sizes and shapes, each with a message for State contract negotiators. The NMU members were responding to a request from Unit leaders to demonstrate their solidarity by wearing green and snapping a photo-of-support on January 11, which was the NMU Bargaining Team’s first day of fact finding.
The response was terrific. So much so, in fact, the Communications Department has produced videos that feature some and all and all of the photos submitted. Because the number of photos from AOT workers was so great, a special video featuring just them is also part of the mix.
To view VSEA’s Facebook page, featuring the videos and more photos, click here!
"I happen to think that these fair-share arrangements make a lot of sense for the people of my state. They guard against the temptation for some employees to free-ride — in other words, to receive the benefits of union bargaining, but pass the buck on to their fellow employees."
VSEA is applauding a decision by the Vermont Supreme Court to overturn a 2014 ruling by the Vermont Labor Relations Board (VLRB) that Deputy States Attorneys, Victims Advocates and Secretaries in the State’s Attorneys Offices cannot be organized under either the under the Municipal Labor Relations Act (MERA) or the State Employee Labor Relations Act (SELRA). Shortly after the VLRB issued its 2014 ruling, VSEA publicly blasted the Board’s “ambiguous” determination that the DSAs were neither “state nor municipal” employees, promising an appeal to the Supreme Court, which the union followed through with and filed.
