Findings contained in DOC report shed new light on difficult situation confronting DOC employees when dealing with Vermont’s most severely mentally ill offenders
For immediate release Feb. 7, 2012 Contact Doug Gibson Phone: (802) 223-5247 Through a recent public records request, the Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) obtained a copy of a January 18, 2012, Vermont Department of Corrections (DOC) report titled “Raising the Bar: Improving Resources for Care and Custody of the Severely Impaired Offender Population Of Vermont.” The [...]
Shumlin, VSEA reach tentative agreement
If members ratify the deal, state workers will receive a 4 percent increase over two years and the 3 percent pay cut would be restored.
Vermont State Employees’ Association welcomes new executive director
Today, the Vermont State Employees’ Association (VSEA) welcomed its new executive director Mark Mitchell, who comes to Vermont from San Francisco where he worked most recently as a Labor Representative for the California Nurses Association (CNA). Mitchell succeeds Jes Kraus, who left the VSEA earlier this year to take a position at the University of Vermont.
VSEA urges Shumlin to replace state hospital
If Vermont doesn’t move ahead with plans to replace the state hospital, it will join Rhode Island as the only other state without a taxpayer-subsidized psychiatric hospital.
LeVasseur: Vermont State Hospital should remain short-term option for patient care
Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Eric LeVasseur of Colchester, a Vermont State Employees Association member and an employee at the Vermont State Hospital. I am writing this as a VSEA union member, an activity therapist at the Vermont State Hospital, a concerned Vermonter and a taxpayer. I felt the need to write a response [...]
Alliance between Shumlin, VSEA frays
VSEA members miffed by administration’s handling of pay cuts, hiring freeze, double-time grievance and state hospital closure.
Spaulding: Shumlin administration correct and fair in Irene pay dispute
As the person responsible for overseeing the agencies and departments that run state government in Vermont, I have witnessed our state employees at their best over the past several weeks. Since Tropical Storm Irene hit our state, our state employees have stepped up.
VSEA Director Jes Kraus announces resignation to take position at The University Of Vermont
“This was an extremely difficult decision and one I did not make lightly,” Kraus wrote to VSEA members in a July 20 e-mail communiqué. “The UVM position will afford me the opportunity to further pursue my interest in employee rights in a new setting that is closer to my home.”
No furloughs for some Vermont state workers
Voluntary furloughs (in which Vermont state workers choose to work and earn less) and private contract reductions are not generating anticipated savings. That’s in part, state and union officials say, because of previous cuts to labor.
VSEA reaches agreement with state on voluntary furlough program
Terry Lefebvre, chairperson of the Vermont State Employees’ Association’s (VSEA) Non-Management Unit (NMU) bargaining team, announced today that the union’s largest bargaining unit has reached agreement with the Shumlin Administration on a one-year “voluntary furlough” program.
