VSEA member Justin Gibbs was just one of 30 Vermont AOT employees who were dispatched to Massachusetts to help clean up from a crippling winter storm that dropped as much as three feet of snow on the greater Boston metro area.
Article 44 of the collective bargaining agreement requires the State to pay employees specific compensation when they are required to work while their work facilities are closed due to an emergency (such as adverse weather conditions, acts of God, equipment breakdown, inoperable bathroom facilities, etc.).
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“I received letters from individuals at every level of the professional hierarchy who have worked closely with Mark. … What emerged from these letters is what I found to be an accurate representation of Mark’s personal and professional character as an extraordinary nurse with an almost saintly reputation for grace under pressure, peacefulness, patient expertise and loving care.”
Sadly, in an effort to further poison an already toxic situation, there were individuals who wasted no time throwing Mark under the bus when this story originally came out. Apology time?
VSEA Labor Educator Peter Garon has released a schedule of trainings throughout the winter 2013. Interested VSEA members are urged to sign-up today to attend an upcoming training session.
“’VSEA’s staff shares the administration’s goal to raise the census at the facility,’ [VSEA Lobbyist Cassandra] Magliozzi said. ‘But we do think there needs to be an increase in the number of full-time staff down there.”
[State Finance Commissioner James] Reardon, too, asserted that the facility should have appropriate staffing levels.’"