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University of Vermont staff and faculty unions chalk up important victories
26 October 2021
Across the country, public college and university administrations have used the Covid-19 crisis as an opening to remake higher education as a business: shuttering liberal arts programming, increasing executive pay, and squeezing more out of students, staff and faculty.
Planned Parenthood staff celebrate first contract in Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire
26 October 2021
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England (PPNNE) provides reproductive health care to 42,000 people across Vermont, Maine, and New Hampshire, including thousands of people living in underserved low-income and rural communities.
UVM Health Network nurses and techs fight for safe staffing, imaging techs ratify agreement
26 October 2021
Nurses and health professionals at UVM Medical Center (UVMMC), Porter Medical Center and Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital (CVPH) in Plattsburgh took the lead this year in fighting for safe staffing and quality patient care amidst the Covid-19 pandemic.
AFT Vermont Legislative Agenda 2021-22
Delegates to the AFT Vermont convention ratified the platform for the 2021-22 legislative session. The platform includes:
Political Leaders Speak out to Support Faculty and Staff Against Regressive Cuts by UVM Administration
Vermont leaders are sounding the alarm on highly regressive cuts being made to non-tenured faculty (lecturers) and staff at the University of Vermont.
The UVM administration plan a 25% pay cut to over 70 full-time lecturers. These educators make a little over $60,000 per year, on average. Many teach hundreds of students per semester. Part-time lecturers and staff members also face cuts. Lecturers make up more than half the UVM faculty.