Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Vermont Workers Center / Jobs with Justice. The short explanation of this alert was: COTS management has rejected a compromise proposal from their employees to settle the question of Union recognition, and has just fired three valued employees. The alleged reason for the firings has to do with a little known and never enforced rule that states that employees cannot be related to or living with other COTS employees they have to report to. The agency has suddenly decided to enforce this rule, and the result is that three workers have lost their jobs and the homeless have lost three tireless advocates. [Note: COTS Administration has said that these are not techincally "firings", because they have been offered to apply for other jobs in other COTS programs.  We use the word firing when someone has had their job terminated.  This little known rule didn't just so happened to be enforced, but appears to be blatant retaliation because of the union drive.]   Many of us in the community have been perplexed by COTS hostile reaction to its employees' democratic choice to unionize. We're asking that this injustice be corrected. If you would like to view details on this alert, please visit here.

Maintainer: Vermont Workers Center / Jobs with Justice (info@workerscenter.org)