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The State of Vermont is facing yet another budget deficit, and Vermont’s Governor is proposing to eliminate or reduce vital state services and is asking state employees to help by re-opening recently signed contracts and giving something back. But we know that VSEA members have already helped out many times, taking a 3% pay cut, enduring step freezes and increasing employee contributions to our health care and pension plans. This time, however, we can and must say "no" to the hasty proposals and to a mindset of "let’s just balance the budget on the backs of state employees and the Vermonters who rely on their services".
VSEA member Patricia Bennett, testifying in 2014 against ill-advised proposed cuts to 911 services. Bennett works in the Derby office.
VSEA frontline 911 Dispatchers in Derby and Rutland are fighting back with their union’s help against ill-advised budget cuts to the critical service they provide to so many local Vermont communities’ police, fire, EMS and just ordinary citizens.
Here’s a quote from Ann Masse, a VSEA Dispatcher in Rutland, in a January 24 Rutland Herald story about the proposed service cut:
“From a dispatcher’s standpoint, this is a safety issue for responders and the public because it can only lead to delays in response time.”
Please sign a petition, supporting Vermont’s 911 Dispatchers!
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With state employees staring at a mandate to somehow find $5-$10 million for the State, VSEA members are urged to share this Governor Shumlin meme far and wide. Remind Vermonters that employees genuinely thought the switch would produce the Governor’s stated savings, but it didn’t–and that’s through no fault of state employees. Remind Vermonters that the $10 million would have covered the amount the State now wishes to extract from employees.
