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6B The Borfcngtoo (Vt.) Free Press, Thursday, Moy 14, 1987 Mayor Lends Support to Hospital Unionizing Effort union at the Medical Center. Both failed, the most recent in 1980 by the Service Employees International Union. them," said Maureen Connolly, an admitting clerk in the emergency room. "So what you have is a situation where their main concern is, No. 1 themselves, and No.

2, you." Organizers need 51 percent of the estimated 2,000 hospital employees to sign union cards in order to hold an election. If an election is held, a simple majority vote would get the union in place. Organizers said they will know by January whether enough support can be gathered to push the union through. There have been two attempts in recent years to establish a United States of America, and you have American citizens who correctly fear that by standing up for their rights they may lose their jobs," Sanders said. "That's says a hell of a lot about the climate of working conditions in our state and in this region." The meeting Wednesday, with representation from the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, was part of a five-month effort to create a union at the hospital.

Organizers say most employees are not happy about wages, hours, benefits and working conditions in general at the Medical Center. "A union seems to be the only way out," said Caroline Swope, a secretary at the hospital and a union organizer. Most of the employees who attended the meeting appeared in favor of creating a union, but there were others who spoke strongly against it. "I have seen a decline over the years as to what those unions really do provide in terms of care or services to the employees that pay for Meeeting organizers said the event was closed to the press to protect the identity of the roughly 120 employees who attended, many of whom feared losing their jobs. Organizers would not disclose the number of employees who filled out union authorization cards as a result of the meeting Wednesday night at the Sheraton Burlington Inn on Wil-liston Road.

Sanders, an outspoken supporter of unions, was disappointed the meeting had to be held behind closed doors. "This is the year 1987, we are the By ENRIQUE CORREDERA Free Press Staff Writer Mayor Bernard Sanders urged Medical Center Hospital of Vermont employees Wednesday to join in the effort to organize a labor union as a way to improve their working conditions and the quality of health care. "I think we're not going to have quality health care in our region unless you have workers who are treated with respect, who are decently paid for the input into the very important health care work that they're doing," Sanders said after the closed-door organizational meeting. WHAT IS BURLINGTON TALKING ABOUT? Check Maggie Maurice's column Sundays in the Living section of the Free Press. Call 863-3441 for home delivery.

Fire Damages Charlotte House Come in Now for Super Buys Throughout the Store! 4 iM.iiMiiiinni.in ymJ yini. i zj zs i it IT UK'i5 Foote said firefighters from Shel-burne and North Ferrisburg were summoned to help battle the blaze and remained at the scene until late afternoon. About 30 firefighters and eight trucks were used to stop the fire from leveling the home, he said. Charlotte Rescue and the American Red Cross also were at the scene, Foote said. State Police Detective Sgt.

Earl F. Martin Jr. and Co-op Insurance Investigator Harold Burke were summoned to the scene to assist in the probe, the chief said. The house, which is about 1.5 miles north of the Old Brick Store on Vermont F-5, was purchased in 1975 by Mitchell, who is a retired symphony director from the Washington, D.C., area, Burns said. Burns said the house was boarded up until Mitchell returns to survey the ruins.

CHARLOTTE Fire extensively damaged the home of Howard Mitchell on North Greenbush Road Wednesday, fire officials said. The fire apparently started in the garage and spread into the kitchen and dining room area shortly after 12:30 p.m., Fire Chief David Scher-merhorn said. The house was unoccupied and no firefighters were injured, he said. Mitchell is scheduled to return from a winter in Florida this week, according to Rick Burns, a caretaker. University of Vermont basketball coach Tom Brennan has been living there this winter, he said.

Water damage also was reported to the lower level of the ranch-style home and smoke damage in some of the upper level rooms, Schermerhorn said. Assistant Fire Chief Jonathan mm i i in mm mn 19" MTS Stereo Color TV Phone Answerer Telephone Combo Tandy 1000 SX Hard Disk System Another Safe Cracking Reported TAD-250 by DU6FONE 379S5 Reg. 120 499.95 Low As $20 Per Month Our best first time on sale! Built-in W- stereo amplifier and speakers Diagonally measured. Remote batteries extra Wireless Remote gating the possibility the safes are being burglarized by the same individuals. He said they are checking the possibility that present or former employees of the businesses are responsible and have dusted the crime scenes for fingerprints.

Other safe crackings have occurred at Vermont Mattress Furniture Co. on Riverside Avenue, Kentucky Fried Chicken on Shel-burne Road and Woodbury Lumber Corp. on King Street. Burlington police are investigating the fourth in a series of safe crackings at small businesses over the last several weeks. The most recent occurred Tuesday at Hall's Card Gift Shop, 110 Church St.

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