VSEA Judiciary members working in courthouses across Vermont ramped up their efforts this week to get management to come to the bargaining table, after management informed the workers recently that it is unwilling to come to the table until mid-December. Workers had filed an unfair labor practice to try to force management to begin bargaining right now with the Unit, in advance of having to submit a budget to the legislature, but it was recently dismissed by the Labor Board on a technicality. Following the ULP’s dismissal, VSEA members wrote a letter to management, asking them again to come to the table, but the answer they heard back was “not until mid-December.”
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Prefacing her testimony by identifying herself as a "a nearly maxed-out social worker," DCF Family Services Division Social Worker Shannon Morton delivered emotionally charged testimony to lawmakers about the need for them to address safety issues through increased staffing and resources, enhanced (or first-time for some) safety training, and providing frontline DCF social workers with the lead time they need to prepare for individual cases. Morton also stressed the need for increased community outreach and involvement.
Morton told lawmakers she was testifying on behalf of "my practice and the practices of my colleagues." We think she did a really great job on everyone’s behalf!
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"In hard-nosed political terms, this debate is about power. Raising revenues has its own implications for justice; ever higher taxes may create their own injustice. And in raw political terms, some people don’t want to pay higher taxes, no matter what.
But a full understanding of what is just cannot be achieved without a full understanding of the struggles of Vermonters. Protecting the tax privileges of the wealthy should not be the priority that determines the state budget."
The Vermonters who use the public services provided by VSEA members agree with that last line!
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