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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.

Vermont political leaders are calling for the UVM administration to cut the salaries of highly paid UVM executives instead of putting the burden on its most

At the opening of VFNHP-Nurse negotiations with the UVMMC administration, all of the VFNHP proposals were designed to:

* Protect and improve patient care
* Provide safety and respect
* Improve benefits and compensation to recruit and retain nurses and support staff

Nurses, technical professionals and all staff who agree should add your name here.

Because the staffing crisis affects all staff, VFNHP made the following formal proposals to the UVMMC administration: All UVMMC staff are guaranteed

* A minimum wage of $20/hour (or a 10% increase, whichever is greater)

* The right to organize for RESPECT

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.

Vermont political leaders are calling for the UVM administration to cut the salaries of highly paid UVM executives instead of putting the burden on its most

AFT Vermont proudly endorsed Senator Bernie Sanders for our next President.  He has spent his career fighting for our union here in Vermont and has walked more picket lines than all the other candidates combined. He has used his platform to empower the working class and marginalized communities. 

Bernie is the strongest pro-worker candidate in this race. His campaign is not just to win the Democratic primary, and not just to defeat Donald Trump, although we must, and we will, defeat Donald Trump. This is a campaign to bring fundamental political changes to our country. He is building a working