
UVM STAFF UNITED
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
August 5th, All Day | UVMSU Shirt Day
Wear your UVMSU shirts to work to demonstrate unity!
Email us if you are a member and need a shirt.
August 14th, 12:00 PM | Dependents Audit Rally
Location: Waterman Steps
August 24th, 5:00 PM | Convocation Demonstration Location: Howe Library Steps
Come welcome the incoming class and share our concerns about the dependents audit with them!
August 28th, 12:00 PM | Lunch & Learn: New Committees for 2025: Solidarity and Mutual Aid and Assistance
RSVP or Zoom Registration in the 7/30 Member Email
Join in person in Cohen Hall 101 or on Zoom. Lunch provided!
September 6th, 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM | AFT Vermont Skillshare
Lunch provided! Location TBD
This is an opportunity to come together with other members and local leaders to share ideas, discuss challenges, and build power together. You'll learn what works (and what doesn't) to build our collective power and maintain it over time.
September 25th, 5:00 - 8:00 PM | UVMSU Fall Social
RSVP in the 7/30 Member Email
Come join your friends and colleagues for UVMSU's Captain's Pub Trivia Night! Meet new people and help your team come out on top while enjoying pizza and drinks. We’ll eat and mingle from 5-6 and then have trivia from 6-7:30.
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
UVMSU Budget vote open until Friday
Sick Leave Bank donations open through June 30
Dependent audit & UVMSU
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
UVMSU Budget Member Meeting Tomorrow (6/12) at Noon
Sick Leave Bank Donations Open
No Kings Rally, 6/14
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
UVMSU Budget Documents & Member Meetings June 10 & 12
Updated UVMSU Contract Page
Library and Treasurer’s Office Layoffs
Payment letters - update and status
Events:
People’s Pride, June 7
No Kings Rally, June 14
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Library and Treasurer’s Office Layoffs
UVMSU Budget Member Meetings June 10 & 12 - Registration Open
Paycheck Letters - Update and Status
Vermont Green FC - Labor Night, 5/31! Get your tickets!
Contract Celebration Photos!
UVMSU-UA Joint Statement on Library Layoffs
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Retirement Incentive Program
Library Layoffs
UVMSU Budget Member Meetings June 10 & 12 - Registration Open
Paycheck Updates
Contact VT Congressional Delegation TODAY re: Higher Ed Funding
Cuts
Vermont Green FC- Labor Night, 5/31! Get Your tickets!
Solidarity:
Two Farmworkers Released, Three In Court
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
New Pay Rates and Retroactive Pay Issued in This Week’s Payroll
H.173 Update
Solidarity:
Rally for Kseniia Petrova (5/14)
AFT-VT Fair Share Online Action
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Contract Celebration (5/9)
Contract Implementation Payroll Update
Welcome to new Area Stewards!
Solidarity:
Rally for Rumeysa Ozturk (5/9)
Rally for Kseniia Petrova (5/14)
AFT-VT Fair Share online action
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Video on H.173 - Contact your legislators
Contract Implementation Payroll Update
Events:
March for Mohsen Mahdawi (4/30)
May Day 2025 (5/1)
Contract Celebration (5/9)
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Contract Updates and Implementation
March for Mohsen Mahdawi (4/23)
Events:
Union Power 2025 Conference (4/26)
May Day 2025 (5/1)
Contract Celebration (5/9)
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Board of Trustees Ratifies our Contract & FAQs
Events:
Today: National Day of Action Higher Ed
Strike Conference
May Day 2025
Contract Celebration
Solidarity:
Letter to Vermont State Education Secretary
Support Scholarships for VSC
We did it: UVM Staff United has voted overwhelmingly to ratify our contract. In the final tally, 923 people or 77% of our membership voted in our ratification election, with 919 voting yes and 4 voting no. With the close of voting at 5pm yesterday, our contract was officially ratified on the UVM Staff United side. This contract - our union’s second ever - represents an advance in worker rights at the University of Vermont. In every article, we either made progress or maintained status quo: there are no losses to our rights in this contract.
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
We Ratified Our Contract & FAQs
Events:
Grad Student Union Birthday Event
National Day of Action for Higher Ed
Strike Conference
Contract Celebration
Solidarity:
Letter to Vermont State Education Secretary
Support Scholarships for VSC
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Ratification Vote In Progress
If you haven’t voted yet, you have until tomorrow, Wednesday, April 9th, at 5pm.
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
We have a TA! Member Meetings and Contract Ratification Vote
What does a yes or no vote mean?
What’s in the new contract?
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
We Reached Tentative Agreement!
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
All Out to Bargaining Friday, 3/28!
UVMSU Testifies on Right to Strike (H.173)
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Reminder: UVMSU Member Meetings Today (3/25) & Tomorrow (3/26) at noon
Tentative Bargaining and Week of Action Dates
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Pledge to Take Action
Legislative Action Day Report-Out
Other Updates: NIH Indirects, Sick Leave Bank, “Total Rewards”
AFT Connections
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
UVM Unions Join Together to
Protect Students and Workers
2/6 Rally RSVP
Download and print out our rally flyer
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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!
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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!
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Stop the cuts rally at UVMMC
Rally for Grad Student Union
Report-out: “Not the Enemy Within”
Tabling Sign-Up
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
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.
Visit the Member Information page to view the full PDF of this member update.
Healthcare Update
Elections Update
Fact-finding Update
Advice Column
Table sign-up
MEMBER UPDATES
Stay up to date on the details by reading the UVMSU newsletter and attending member meetings.