VSEA is pleased to invite VSEA Chapters statewide to participate in the first-ever Will Wells Memorial Food Drive Challenge!
As in years, past VSEA is again challenging every VSEA Chapter and its members to raise as much money as possible between now and December 31 to provide meals to a “virtual food drive” for the Vermont Foodbank. Let’s see which VSEA Chapter can raise the most money for this very worthwhile cause that benefits so many Vermont families during especially difficult times. Again, the VSEA Board of Trustees voted to start each Chapter off with a $200 donation.
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!
VSEA stopped by the AOT garage in Middlesex this morning to meet with members and provide an update on issues important to the group. Most of the members had just come back from early morning plowing and were cleaning off their plows.
VSEA thanks the Middlesex AOT members and all AOT members statewide for the excellent job you do year in and year out keeping Vermont’s highways and byways cleared, often in some less-than-ideal weather conditions.
The Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA), as the union representing Vermont state employees, is calling on Governor Phil Scott to make immediate visits to the most chronically understaffed worksites across state government.
“Right now, there are far too many state worksites statewide where employees are having to hold their crumbling worksites together with massive amounts of overtime—giving up time with their families as a result,” explains VSEA President Aimee Towne. “These dedicated state employees deserve to hear directly from the Governor on his plan to solve what is a very serious and chronic staffing crisis in far too many Vermont state workplaces.”
Tuesday, November 8, is Election Day, and, to all members and retirees who have not yet voted, VSEA is encouraging you to review your union’s list of endorsed candidates in the 2022 general election.
“This is an outstanding group of committed, pro-state employee candidates whom we feel we can rely on to stand with us when the going gets tough,” says VSEA President Aimee Bertrand Towne.
VSEA’s member-driven endorsement process involves multiple stages of review of the elective and legislative history of candidates, and of questionnaires crafted by VSEA members.
