The votes are the latest sign of frustration over the university’s decision to move to an “all-digital” library system and downgrade two campuses’ athletics programs.
“It is irresponsible. It is reckless and it is reprehensible to put retirees in fear that they will lose their health care and be forced into risky, controversial Medicare Advantage plans,” said former Secretary of State Jim Condos, just four weeks into his retirement.
University of Vermont Medical Center support staffers' vote to unionize last month was one of the largest labor elections in state history. Yet the landmark.
According to the Vermont State Employees’ Association, which represents workers across the state’s corrections system, 66 of 68 staff security workers at the Northern State Correctional Facility signed onto the letter of no confidence.