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One Month Remains In 1st Annual Will Wells Memorial Food Drive Challenge!

December 1, 2022 1:30 pm

Last month, VSEA launched the first-ever Will Wells Memorial Food Drive Challenge, inviting VSEA members in Chapters statewide to participate by raising as much money as possible between now and December 31 for the Vermont Foodbank. There is still one more month remaining! Which VSEA Chapter will win this year’s Food Drive Challenge bragging rights?

The total amount of money VSEA donated to the Foodbank in 2021 was $7,000, and VSEA’s Chittenden Chapter raised the most for the second year in a row! Will they win again for the third year in a row?

Want to help boost your VSEA Chapter’s donation total? Donate online or find out how to donate by mail here.

Help your Chapter win by sharing this post with your colleagues. Thank you in advance for your donations to this great cause!

New Hampshire Sounding Alarm About Understaffing Across State Government

November 30, 2022 12:10 pm

“Commissioners came forward, one by one for 15 minutes each Tuesday, to go over their budget requests for the next two years and were consistently asked what are the biggest challenges they face.

While concerns such as supply chain issues, inflationary costs, interest rates, huge utility increases, and post-COVID-19 realities have been identified, staffing level concerns were almost universal.”

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They’re Back… Well-Funded, Corporate Group Funding Mass Anti-Union Mailing

November 29, 2022 12:23 pm

VSEA is aware that the Freedom Foundation–a well-funded, corporate, anti-union group from outside Vermont–is once again sending emails and letters to VSEA members to promote the group’s anti-union, anti-worker agenda. Each time this group tries to peddle its propaganda here in Vermont, VSEA reminds members that there are so many good reasons for VSEA members to ignore this group’s email and letter.

Here are some resources for members to revisit:

Happy Thanksgiving VSEA!

November 23, 2022 9:53 am

VSEA President Aimee Towne shared the following Thanksgiving message with members and retirees this morning:

On behalf of the VSEA Board of Trustees, I want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, and safe Thanksgiving holiday. We have a lot to be thankful for this year, beginning with the fact that labor unions like ours have survived years of demonization and are now finally becoming more and more popular with younger Americans, and, just as important, young Vermonters. Because of your activism and support for each other, VSEA continues to raise the bar for state employees, both active and retired, while also protecting the wage, benefit, and working condition improvements we and those before us have won at the bargaining table. For this, the Board and I are thankful.

Here are some other VSEA achievements we can all be thankful for this year.