Posted on 12/03/2009 6:15:16 PM PST by JimVT
Governor and Administration Secretary Announce Contract Agreement with State Employees Union
Two-year contract calls for 3% wage reduction with no automatic yearly wage adjustments or step increases
Montpelier, Vt. - Governor Jim Douglas and Secretary of Administration Neale Lunderville today announced that agreement on a new two-year contract has been reached with the Vermont State Employees Association (VSEA). The contract, which was signed by both parties earlier today, includes a 3% wage reduction as well as no automatic yearly wage adjustments or step increases for the duration of the contract. This settlement is very good news for the taxpayers of Vermont. It recognizes the Governor's call to share the sacrifice broadly during these very challenging economic times.
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Two-year contract calls for 3% wage reduction with no automatic yearly wage adjustments or step increases
Montpelier, Vt. - Governor Jim Douglas and Secretary of Administration Neale Lunderville today announced that agreement on a new two-year contract has been reached with the Vermont State Employees Association (VSEA). The contract, which was signed by both parties earlier today, includes a 3% wage reduction as well as no automatic yearly wage adjustments or step increases for the duration of the contract. This settlement is very good news for the taxpayers of Vermont. It recognizes the Governor's call to share the sacrifice broadly during these very challenging economic times.
Hooray!
I would cheer louder if 50% of them were RIFed.
The VT civil service is full of leftists.
Yes, good news.
I wrote to my representative Janet Ancel last fall (a neighbor) that I hoped they wouldn’t try to raise taxes, because there were people in town in danger of foreclosure. But they overrode the Governor’s budget anyway.
Now maybe people are starting to sober up and remember the last financial crisis here—which Howard Dean of all people fixed.
This may be the People’s Republic of Vermont, but in general people here just want the right thing for their neighbors, not so suck off the welfare teat themselves. They are naive, perhaps, but that’s better than greedy.
“The VT civil service is full of leftists.”
Where is this not the case?
All bureaucracies are run primarily for the benefit of the employees.
Excellent start - thanks, Vermont! May our corrupt Dem Governor learn and do from Vermont’s example..,..,,.
Ha ha ha ha ha - I crack myself up.
Riffing 50% of them would be cause for great celbration, and the Republican governor had the perfect excuse, plus he is not running again.
Good news from Vermont would be (IMHO) Bernie Sanders and Howard Dean both Renounce Citizenship, seek Asylum from Hugo CHAVEZ.
although, getting the better of a UNION is a Close Second!!
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