The VSEA Council is meeting in Montpelier today (and by Zoom) to discuss union business, including the 2023 legislative agenda, an operating budget, a Roberts’ Rules primer, and a union-wide member recruitment plan.
VSEA appreciates these member activists taking time to tend to the union’s business to help steer VSEA into 2023.
The members of the Retired Employees Committee on Insurance (RECI) voted in November to oppose Governor Phil Scott’s proposal to force retired state employees into a Medicare Advantage scheme. RECI is a statutorily created joint committee that includes appointees of the Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) and also appointees of Governor Phil Scott. Its specific purpose is to advise the Secretary of Administration.
“Retired state employees want nothing to do with Medicare Advantage,” says RECI Chairperson Dave Bellini. “We are urging the Governor to abandon his proposal outright, and we are already advising lawmakers to steadfastly oppose the Governor’s proposal if introduced,” adding emphatically, “Don’t force retirees into a plan they do not wish to participate in.”
Big thanks to AOT members John Dunbar and Iain Portalupi for decorating an AOT plow for the holiday season and for making an appearance at the 2022 tree lighting in Montpelier.
The truck is appropriately named Rudolph. Because AOT is being hit hard by understaffing, the agency is also using the truck as a recruitment tool.
