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Vermont Business Magazine Imaging Technologists at Vermont’s largest Hospital, the University of Vermont Medical Center, voted overwhelmingly to join the Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals-AFT-Vermont. The final vote count was 123-32 in favor of unionizing.
The 230 technologists include sonographers, cardiac technicians, interventional radiologists, and technologists working within CT Scan, MRI, Diagnostic Xray, Nuclear Medicine, and Mammography. This group joins the other 2,400 nurses and technicians currently members of the VFNHP-AFT Vermont, the largest and fastest-growing healthcare union in the state.
The technologists began their drive for representation on the heels of the cyberattack and in response to the pandemic. “This has been the worst year that we have ever experienced,” said Alida Aiello, a technologist with 10 years invested into UVMMC, “but we have been asking for years for changes to be made that would improve our
by Patti Bacchus on March 11th, 2021 at 3:10 PM 1 of 9 2 of 9
A Greater Victoria School Board public committee meeting March 1 was a rude reminder of how far school boards need to go in moving from performative territorial acknowledgements at the start of school board meetings to authentically welcoming First Nations to participate in decision-making.
That public online meeting started with the chair, Trustee Ryan Painter, taking the Indigenous-territory acknowledgement further than usual, saying it was “super important” to him to “really position ourselves in place and space where we are in terms of whose land we’re occupying and whose land we’ve come from, and I think it’s super important to situate ourselves in that space when we do this work, so just really opening my heart and being very open to that and hope that others are as well.”
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The B.C. Liberal leadership race will be a battle for the soul of a party which insiders say is in desperate need of renewal after October’s crushing election defeat to the NDP.
With 11 months until the leadership vote, few have officially declared they are running. But potential candidates include party faithful and an anti-establishment right-wing YouTuber vowing to fight attempts to block him from the race.
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