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January 10 – January 13, 2023

VSEA’s Legislative Team is once again publishing an online, weekly schedule of hearings and testimony about issues important to state employees and to the services you deliver.

Here is this week’s VSEA meeting-of-interest schedule.

Link to find any legislative committee’s live stream page.

Note: Sometimes a meeting will start late, or won’t stream live for one reason or another, but visit the committee’s page a few hours afterward to see if the meeting you were interested in has now posted for viewing.

For the first time since the COVID outbreak, VSEA’s Legislative Committee will again be hosting a series of legislative dinners at VSEA’s headquarters in Montpelier, in addition to continuing to offer members and retirees the option to participate online. The dinners are a great way for members and retirees to meet with key decision-makers outside the State House.

Here is the 2023 schedule with dinner topics. All start at 5:45 p.m. 

• January 18 – Staffing Shortages and Policy Challenges
• January 25 – Anti-Privatization
• February 1 – Safety and Security
• February 8 – Medicare Advantage

Specific Zoom log-in information for each dinner can be found here. VSEA.org login required.

Note: Retirees are encouraged to save the February 8 date, as this dinner will address Medicare Advantage.

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2023 VSEA Legislative Dinner Schedule

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VSEA Executive Director Steve Howard appeared on Tuesday’s edition of Vermont Viewpoint (WDEV’s main morning show) to talk about the membership’s steadfast opposition to any attempt to place retired state employees in a Medicare Advantage plan. Howard also addresses a host of other issues, including the pension fight, corrections issues, and understaffing statewide.

VSEA segment begins at 46:50. Listen Online Here!

When the gavel bangs tomorrow, launching the beginning of the 2023 legislative session, VSEA’s legislative team of (pictured left to right) Tom Abdelnour, Vince Illuzzi, Steve Howard, and Adam Norton are ready to return to the State House to ensure the voices of Vermont state employees and retirees are heard in the building’s hallways, meeting rooms, cafeteria, and chambers. Throughout the session, VSEA members and retirees are always encouraged to come to the State House to help VSEA’s team provide lawmakers with the face-to-face employee and retiree contact and testimony they consistently say they desire.

2023 VSEA Legislative Priorities:

• Protecting and Enhancing Retirement Security
• Securing a Budget that Maintains Vital Public Services
• Preventing the Privatization of State Services
• Enhancing Employee Safety and Security, and Improving Working Conditions
• Achieving Fair Treatment for Temporary Employees
• Defending Collective Bargaining Rights
• Protecting Our Health Care
• Collaborating on Solidarity Issues