
UVM Staff United
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WHO WE ARE:
UVM Staff United is the clerical, specialized, technical and professional staff at UVM. Together, as UVM Staff United, we are organizing for collective power to bargain wages, benefits and working conditions, and for equity, transparency, justice and respect at UVM.
UPCOMING
EVENTS SCHEDULE
Virtual Member Meeting
Wednesday, April 2nd | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Learn more about our new contract ahead of the ratification vote. Register in the 4/1/25 member email.
Virtual Member Meeting
Thursday, April 3rd | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Learn more about our new contract ahead of the ratification vote. Register in the 4/1/25 member email.
Online Ratification Vote
Friday, April 4th
Watch your inboxes for the email with voting information.
MEMBER UPDATES
Stay up to date on the details by reading the UVMSU newsletter and by attending bargaining sessions.
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Pledge to Take Action
Legislative Action Day Report-Out
Other Updates: NIH Indirects, Sick Leave Bank, “Total Rewards”
AFT Connections
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Update on UVM response to Executive Orders
Lunch & Learn Report-Out
Sign-up: 2/27 AFT Vermont Legislative Action Day
AFT Connections: More organizing wins, Statehouse updates, and AFT membership benefits
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Lunch and Learn is TODAY (2/13)
Update on UVM response to Executive Orders
UVMSU Tabling in 2025
Sign-Up: AFT Vermont Legislative Action Day 2/27
AFT Connections: Northwestern Nurses Unionize
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UVM Unions Join Together to
Protect Students and Workers
2/6 Rally RSVP
Download and print out our rally flyer
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Message from Co-Presidents - We Keep Us Safe
Bargaining Update
Sign-up for 2/13 Lunch & Learn
UVMSU Tabling in 2025
Save the Date: AFT Vermont Legislative Action Day 2/27
Send us your glam shots!
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Bargaining Update: Post-Hearing Briefs Submitted
Performance Evaluations
UVMSU Winter Social: Please RSVP!
UVMSU Tabling in 2025
Save the Date: AFT Vermont Legislative Action Day 2/27
Vermont Labor Event: Solidarity with Migrant Workers
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Bargaining Update
Annual Performance Reviews
UVMSU Winter Social: Please RSVP!
Tabling in 2025
Save the Date: AFT Vermont Legislative Action Day 2/27
Lived Identity Focus Groups
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Fact-Finding: highlights and update
UVMSU Winter Social: Please RSVP!
Call for Volunteers: Professional Development Committee
Tabling in 2025
Vermont Labor News: Legal Aid Workers Organize!
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Stop the cuts rally at UVMMC
Rally for Grad Student Union
Report-out: “Not the Enemy Within”
Tabling Sign-Up
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Sign the petition: Stop healthcare cuts at UVM Health Network
Report out: 11/18 Fact-finding Hearing
Upcoming Event: “Not the Enemy Within”
UVMSU Elections results are in!
Opt-in for Open Enrollment and donate to the UVMSU Sick Leave Bank by 11/27!
Tabling sign-up
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Fact Finding on November 18th
A letter from our co-presidents on the national election
UVMSU Elections
Healthcare update: opt-in open enrollment
Tabling sign-up
Important Solidarity Action: Stop healthcare cuts at UVM Health Network
Dear Members,
While our bargaining team is working hard to prepare a strong case for the fact finding hearing (see below for specifics), this week management also forced our Board to make a last-minute decision about healthcare. On Tuesday and Wednesday, HR met separately with our union, the faculty union, the maintenance union, and the police union to present long-overdue details about additional health insurance options and gave us three days to decide if these options should be offered to our members without bargaining.
Before sharing the specifics, we want to make sure to allay any concerns by saying: our health insurance is not changing, nor is the percentage of the premium that we pay. We know that a lot of us work at UVM because of the quality of the health insurance, and that is not at immediate risk.
Here’s the situation: HR officials called a meeting with our union this Tuesday morning, and with the other UVM unions on Wednesday. Co-Presidents Claire Whitehouse and Ellen Kaye, Co-Lead Stewards Jack Roberts and Kara Williams, and AFT Field Rep Max Tracy attended. At this meeting, HR informed us that they planned to offer 3 additional healthcare coverage options to non-represented staff during Open Enrollment (November 6 - 27). They handed us a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) and told us that if we wanted these options made available to our bargaining unit we had to sign it by Friday–three days later. This MOA would force us to waive our right to negotiate the costs or details of coverage for these new options for the next year.
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Healthcare Update
Elections Update
Fact-finding Update
Advice Column
Table sign-up
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Healthcare Update
Last Call for Nominations
Fact-Finding
GSU Work-in 10/28
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UVMSU Nominations and Member Meetings
Fact-Finding Update
Solidarity with Planned Parenthood workers
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Kronos Lunch & Learn
Fact-finding update
Election heads up
Presidential search
DOL Ruling
New UVMSU Interim Treasurer
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Help our union build a case for fair wages
AFT Convention Report
Ask Solidarity Cat: Can contract enforcement get me a better wage?
Election heads-up
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Lunch is Not Enough: Fair Contract Now
Events:
2024 AFT Vermont Convention
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9/17 Staff Appreciation RSVP
Work stoppages, and the fact-finding phase of our campaign
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Bargaining Update: Where are we now?
Survey on work stoppage
Staff Appreciation Week
UVMSU Tabling
News & Updates
August Month of Action: UVMSU at Convocation
Palestine Survey
Kronos Implementation
Welcome new Local Stewards
Know Your Rights
Events
AFT Vermont Convention, 9/21
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Bargaining Update: new session 8/27
August Month of Action
Convocation 8/25
News & Updates
Student Move-In Action
CHWB Settlement
Kronos Implementation
Know Your Rights
Volunteer Opportunities
Local Steward Training: Thursday 8/29
Area Stewards Wanted!
Events
GSU Rally 8/27
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Bargaining Update
August Month of Action
All out for Practice Picket 8/15!
Student Move-in Volunteering 8/21
Convocation 8/25
News & Updates
Budget Vote
Kronos Implementation
Know Your Rights
Volunteer Opportunities
Help with HTML for dyslexia accessibility
Local Stewards and Area Stewards Wanted!
Events
Vermont Primary Election is Tuesday August 13th
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8/8 Bargaining TODAY
8/15 Practice Picket
8/21 Student Move-In Volunteering
8/25 Convocation
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August Month of Action
Bargaining (Mediation) 8/8
Practice Picket 8/15
Student Move-In Volunteering 8/21
Convocation 8/25
News & Updates
Welcome to New Area Stewards
Last Day Vote on Budget
Vermont State Payroll Tax for Childcare
Kronos Implementation
Know Your Rights
Volunteer Opportunities
Local Stewards and Area Stewards Wanted!
Events
AFT-VT Get Out The Vote (GOTV) Phone bank 8/7
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UVMSU Budget Meetings Today 7/25 at Noon and 7PM!
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Bargaining Recap
Next Steps: Impasse and Action
8/8 Mediation Zoon Registration
UVMSU Budget Member Meetings This Week
CHWB Rally
Sign-up to be a Local Steward!
Information for members dealing with recent flooding
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7/18 Bargaining Reminder
7/25 Member Meetings on UVMSU Budget
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Bargaining on Thursday, July 18th
Stand with our Center for Health and Wellbeing Colleagues! 7/15 CHWB Rally
Department of Labor Ruling on Exempt and Non-Exempt Thresholds
Kronos Developments
Know your rights!
Volunteer Opportunities
Area Stewards Wanted!
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Burlington in a union town!
Stand with our Center for Health and Wellbeing Colleagues!
Future Bargaining
Changes from exempt to non-exempt effective July 1
Know your rights!
Volunteer Opportunities
Area Stewards Wanted!
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Bargaining update
UVM’s got Top Talent!
Stand with our Living Well Colleagues
Know your rights!
Sick Leave Bank Donation Alert
Area Stewards Wanted!