This issue has been covered by Channel 3 News, it had been covered by the VtDigger, it has been covered by the Burlington Free Press but it has been borderline ignored by the UVM corporate board so the UVM Hospital address shall be marked.

 

As Miss Deb Snell (President of the VFNHP) stated in the past: Nurses in Portland, Oregon, where the cost of living is only 3% higher than in Burlington, report a earnings starting point of $47 per hour while the nurses at UVM Medical Center start at $35 per hour. The UVM address is stained after years of great work.

 

As far back as 2018 Julie MacMillan (at the time the Union's lead negotiator) brought up how the top 15 highest earning executives of 2016 had combined wages of $10.7 million including $2.1 million for CEO John Brumsted. And that's without accounting for the $187 million Miller Building which was inaugurated in 2019. The University of Vermont address is the embodiment of how silence makes you an accomplice.

 

We stand in solidarity with the nurses of the University of Vermont Medical Center who are represented by the Vermont Federation of Nurse and Health Professionals.

 

To delve into specifics the union is rightfully is asking for a five percent raise across the board after a ratification of the contract, a fifteen percent increase starting in October and a ten percent increase in each of the two years following, a total increase of forty percent over current expectations. They have planted their flag at the UVM Medical Center address.

 

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