Fletcher Allen Techs Need Your Support

Almost 600 hospital technicians at Fletcher Allen Health Care (FAHC) are organizing to form a union, as the nurses did back in 2002. The techs and nurses are now calling on FAHC Administration to recognize their right to organize and not waste thousands of healthcare...

Human Rights Hearing in Barre

Local residents testify about impact of healthcare crisis  Where: Old Labor Hall, 46 Granite Street, Barre, Vermont When: 7:00 PM, Thursday, January 29, 2009  What: For months, volunteers for the Vermont Workers’ Center have been...

Victory for Tenants and BLCC on City Lead Ordinance

Report from Ordinance Committee:Last night, Burlington Livable City Coalition leaders Bekah Mandell and Chris Guros presented the suggested modifications to the lead paint ordinance and our Open Letter supporting the ordinance. The letter had been signed by about...

Join Students, Staff and Faculty to Stop the Cuts at UVM

Lunchtime Forum and Press Conference:Moratorium on the Budget Cuts and Layoffs, Full Disclosure of UVM’s Finances12-1 pm Wednesday, December 17Chittenden Room, Davis Center 4th floor, UVMSponsored by Students, Staff, and Faculty Together This week, as President...
Human Rights Conference Draws 500 Participants

Human Rights Conference Draws 500 Participants

Burlington – Five hundred people participated in the day-long Ella Baker Human Rights Conference held on Dec 13, 2009. The conference was organized by the Vermont Workers’ Center and sponsored by forty-three other organizations. Excerpts of Closing...