"A net gain of three seats will flip control of the State Senate to the Democrats, giving them the power to block [Wisconsin] Gov. Walker’s agenda, which has been shaped heavily by such groups as the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council, Americans for Prosperity, and Club for Growth."
Franklin County state employees are encouraged to work out at Duke’s in St. Albans. A number of different savings packages available to VSEA members.
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"David Lang, president of the PFFNH, said lawmakers shifted onto workers decades of poor decisions they made about NHRS finances."
"[VSEA] welcomes the changed focus. In 2004, the VSEA suggested the state build a new 70-bed hospital on state-owned land in central Vermont for a cost then estimated at $29 million."
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"Several of the Shumlin administration’s proposals, however, have fallen flat. Voluntary furloughs (in which state employees choose to work and earn less) and private contract reductions are not generating anticipated savings. That’s in part, state and [VSEA] officials say, because of previous cuts to labor."