Vermont-NEA Members Urge State to Reach Settlement With VSEA

March 16, 2016 Vermont-NEA Urges Shumlin Administration to Settle With State Workers State’s largest union calls for state to return to table and reach quick, fair settlement MONTPELIER, Vt. – Vermont-NEA’s 12,000 members stand in solidarity with their brothers and sisters of the Vermont State Employees Association in their quest to reach a fair settlement with the administration of Gov. Peter Shumlin. “As fellow public employees, we stand with the thousands of Vermont state

By Martha Allen (This op-ed by our president was distributed to the news media on January 18) It will come as no surprise that I have long opposed caps on what local communities can spend on their children’s education. Our long history of local voters, taxpayers, parents and educators coming together to determine how much to invest in their local schools has served generations of Vermonters well, giving us a public school

If you want to know what power, solidarity and hard work look like, look no further than our brothers and sisters of the Rutland Northeast Education Association Paraeducators and Bus Drivers Unit. Last night, the union’s negotiating team reached a tentative agreement on a two-year deal that holds health insurance costs steady and provides for a 3 percent raise. The nearly 80 members decided to make it clear to the