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 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.
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UVM United Staff leader Sarah Goodrich and VSEA Organizer Jen Larsen appeared on Equal Time radio this week to talk about the drive to bring union representation to clerical, technical and specialized staff at UVM.
Click here to listen to the interview.
Ominous blog post for state employees by the Vermont non-profit group Public Assets. Includes this sentence from statute:
“The state budget should be designed to address the needs of the people of Vermont in a way that advances human dignity and equity.”
As any current state employee will tell you, more job cuts will completely obliterate this sentiment. Instead of state employees and services always being on the menu, maybe it’s time to begin a serious discussion about ways to generate additional revenue.
In this election season, educate politicians running for state and local office about the reality where you work. Can your office afford more cuts?
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