"[Legislators] must understand that [the State] will not miss any opportunity to cut more public services or come after state workers once again. It is incumbent on them to use the rainy day funds to prevent further decimation of our state government."
"On May 18, candidates of all parties will genuflect before the Vermont State Employees Association. The VSEA, which represents about 7500 current and retired state government workers, amended its bylaws last September to allow the organization to make a primary endorsement. The VSEA has seen its ranks thin in the past few years due to staff cuts, and its members have seen wage cuts, too. Makes you wonder what they’ll want to hear from candidates. VSEA’s executive committee will decide who, if anyone, to endorse, and will forward the name, or names, to a 150-member VSEA council for approval. The council’s vote could come in mid-June."
What they want to hear from candidates?? Hmmm. Good question. Maybe start with "Please choose one word to best describe the treatment of state employees in the past few years by the State and legislators?"
"VSEA continues to be honored every day to represent the finest public service and corrections workers in the nation.”
"More Vermonters are now unemployed, through no fault of their own, than since the Great Depression. Those that qualify, receive a modest unemployment benefit – the smallest maximum benefit in New England for those who have families."
Shock & Awe: No Benefit Cut, But You Will Have To Wait A Week To Begin Collecting.
National Employment Law Project Calls Vermont’s Proposed Cut "The Nation’s Worst!!!"
From an April 27 town hall meeting in Iowa:
[…] I’ve said this before publicly and I’ll say it again, I make no apologies for it. I am a pro-union guy.
Our unions helped build our middle class. We take for granted so much stuff — minimum wage laws, 40-hour work week, overtime, child labor laws. Those things wouldn’t have happened if it hadn’t been for unions fighting for those rights. So even if you’re not a member of a union, you’ve got to be appreciative of what unions have done.
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