Schedule For VSEA VSH Employees’ “Day Of Action For Our Patients”
Day of activity at State House culminates in "Vigil for VSH Patients" outside the Pavilion Building, beginning at 5 p.m. All VSEA members are welcome to join the vigil!
Spaulding Blames VSEA? For Legislature’s Failure To Push Through Administration’s Mental Health Bill
"Jeb Spaulding, the secretary of the Agency of Administration, blamed the Vermont State Employees Association for the timing. He said the union wanted to ‘roil the waters and get concessions.’"
"He said the layoffs had nothing to do with the bill in the Senate. ‘The reason we were pushing bill was because the governor asked for it to be on his desk by Feb.17,’ Spaulding said."
So VSEA ensured its members were aware and that legislators knew all the facts, and somehow that makes us wrong? We prefer that it makes us transparent.
VSEA Blasts State’s Decision To RIF 80 State Hospital Employees
"The State’s decision to RIF these 80 state hospital caregivers does absolutely nothing to help alleviate Vermont’s very serious mental health crisis"
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”We all knew Governor Douglas had an affinity for laying off state employees, but we never witnessed him laying off 80 employees at one time.”
VSEA Lamoille Chapter President’s Letter Welcomes Temporary Relocation Of Some Acute State Hospital Beds To Morrisville
"We have an opportunity to help some of our most vulnerable population whose lives were severely impacted by the storm."
WSJ’s “Market Watch” Hails Vermont’s Gains In Industrial Employment
Article kind of strikes a blow to all the "Vermont is bad for business" Chicken Little’s running around our state.
St. Albans Tech firm to add 150 new jobs