Weekly News From Your Union: October 6 – October 10
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Weekly News From Your Union: October 6 – October 10
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Members Turnout At The Vermont Veterans’ Home
Great VSEA member turnout yesterday at the Vermont Veterans’ Home Board of Trustees meeting. Frontline workers were there to support recently elected Board employee representative Jaime Percey and also articulate the employee position on workplace issues and the workers’ desire to help management promote the excellent level of care being provided by VSEA members at the Bennington landmark–Vermont’s only State-administered Home for Vermont veterans.
Thanks to all who came!
Key Single-Payer Advocate Says VSEA Health Plan Is Perfect Model | Vermont Public Radio
With confidence waning in the State’s single-payer health care rollout, Washington County Sen. Anthony Pollina is beginning a push to advance VSEA’s health care plan as the baseline plan for all Vermonters; a position the VSEA Board adopted months ago and a position all VSEA members are being asked to talk about with lawmakers and elected officials. Thanks Sen. Pollina!
“I would rather put the VSEA plan on the table and say let’s see how we can all be part of this,” said Pollina. “As opposed to putting some abstract idea on the table and say why don’t we try to cobbler together a single-payer health care system starting from scratch. It seems like it makes more sense to me.”
Read the full story via VPR here
Congratulations Brattleboro Chapter Members!
Congratulations to VSEA Brattleboro Chapter members for raising more than $200 for the Morningside Shelter by hiking together for the homeless on October 5. Brattleboro Chapter and other VSEA members who still want to donate can do so by dropping a check off to Chapter President Robin Rieske at the Department of Health or mailing your donation directly to Morningside Shelter, identifying yourself as a VSEA member.
Rieske is thanking everyone who hiked and contributed to this successful Chapter-building effort.