May 2, 2022
VSEA released the following press release this afternoon:
VSEA President Aimee Towne said the union is furious about Governor Scott’s veto this afternoon of pension legislation, which was crafted in a months-long process by a Task Force and subsequently passed by the Senate and then approved unanimously by the House.
“As we have said since the Governor first threatened to veto this critical legislation, it is so wrong for him to come in at the last minute and blow apart months and months of hard work by a talented and diverse group of individuals, including a representative of his own administration,” says Towne. “And for what? All to appease a small group of wealthy Vermonters? The Task Force legislation was fair and had been fully vetted, unlike the Governor’s proposal, which his own representatives recently admitted to lawmakers they could not attach hard numbers to. This is a shameless move by a man who once said a deal is a deal because of the way he was raised. VSEA will put every resource our union has into working with lawmakers, other unions and supporters to override Governor Scott’s last-minute obstructionism.”
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