YOUR CHOICE FOR AN INDEPENDENT VOICE!
Representing 5300 members including staff at the Vermont State Colleges 
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Come hear directly from VT State Colleges VSEA members about being a union member

Wednesday, March 26th
John Dewey Lounge, Old Mill
12:00-1:15 PM
 
Bring your questions! Bring your co-workers! 
 
Come meet members of the Vermont State Employees' Union who work for the Vermont State Colleges, doing similar, if not identical work as you do here at UVM! 
 
Find out how their union has succeeded in establishing meaningful policies, securing salaries and benefits and improving working conditions at the VT State Colleges.

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When you and your colleagues form a union you will have the right to negotiate a contract that defines the conditions of your workplace, your salary increases, your benefits. 

Click here to read some of the improvements negotiated by the members of the Vermont State College Staff Federation-VSEA in 2013.



ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, GET INFORMATION...
THEN 
TAKE ACTION!
 
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While you are on a break today... 
and you are pondering  your "total compensation package" ...you can explore your curiousity about President Sullivan's salary or anyone else's?

Check out the link to the recent UVM salary listing in a searchable excel form [courtesy of the faculty union, United Academics]

Also of interest: 
United Academics has put together a graph demonstrating faculty salary increases vs. the upper administration salary increases from 2003-2013. Of particular interest are the continued increases for the administration salaries during the years of "serious budget deficits".
Read more here.

Check out the United Academics website for more info.
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The Voices of UVM Staff

Another voice in the mix of the hundreds of conversations we have had across the UVM community recently: 

"I keep coming back to the same thing. We need to have a voice. That is the one most important over-arching issue with which staff at UVM have to reconcile. Without our own voice, we only reap what are essentially consequences of our inaction. Others negotiate for themselves and we settle. We settle for 'the best' the administration has to offer. We settle for cuts in pay under the guise of 'cost-sharing'. We settle for administrative decisions that only benefit the administrative layers, of which there are more and more.

 

Let's not settle anymore, let's have a conversation in which WE get to say what matters to us, as staff, and negotiate on OUR terms for a change.

 

As Mr. Spock stated: "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. "

 

It's time for the many to be heard. The only way to do that is with a contract. The only way to achieve a contract is through a union."


UVM staff member since 2006
More voices of staff...
We have heard many thoughtful reasons from staff as to why they want a union - is your reason on this list?
equity
benefits
salary
security
to have a voice
representation
 having a contract
better quality of life at work
meaningful processes- when things are not right
to be empowered
 to make positive change 
an even playing field
a seat at the table 

MORE ABOUT VSEA 

What Is the Vermont State Employees' Association?

 

The Vermont State Employees' Association is an independent union of over 5,100 Vermont workers that

have joined together to have a voice in the decisions that affect our jobs.

 

In addition to the clerical and technical staff at the Vermont State Colleges, our union consists of state employees. 

 

At the core of the union's program is the work that members and staff do together to bargain contracts with management and ensure that these agreements are upheld in each of our workplaces. 

 

VSEA has a team of professional staff to support members in enforcing

the contracts, training workplace stewards, carrying out direct action on key issues, lobbying, communications and legal support.
For more information
VSEA- the independent union for UVM staff

Vermont State 
Employees' Association

or call:
802-338-6052
Big decisions are being made without YOU-

Want to change the power dynamic?
  1. Talk with your colleagues - it is LEGAL to talk about your salary and benefits and having representation 
  2. Sign a card to join VSEA - and join your colleagues who have signed cards
  3. Move forward with other UVM staff to make positive change - sign cards, have a successful election, form a strong union to negotiate for a contract to secure the good parts of your working conditions and begin to change the things that matter to you 
We will always be stronger when we work together as a group than when we stand alone.  Join your colleagues in moving forward to make key improvements and to protect the things that we want to keep the same -

Sign a card to join the Vermont State Employees' Association today!  
 

Good things come to those who negotiate!

 

 
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United Staff wholeheartedly endorses the Vermont State Employees' Association in forming a strong, independent union of UVM staff. As a longtime independent organization at UVM, United Staff supports 

VSEA, a union of Vermonters that will keep the focus of our efforts and our resources here in Vermont. 

 

Join hundreds of our co-workers in supporting VSEA -- your choice for an independent voice in our workplace!

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