by Media Team | Sep 30, 2008 | News
While attention has focused recently on the Wall Street financial crisis, working families in Vermont and across the country have been facing an economic crisis in recent years, including: unaffordable healthcare, the lack of livable-wage jobs, foreclosures and a...
by Media Team | Sep 30, 2008 | News
Brattleboro, VT — On the evening of September 25th more than fifty Brattleboro residents came to St. Michaels Episcopal Church to participate in the first Human Rights Hearing on Healhcare. This was the first of a series of hearings to be held throughout the state as...
by Media Team | Sep 23, 2008 | News
Statement from the Northrup Grummon workers UE Local 208:”On Friday Sept. 12th, UE Local 208 ratified its first Union contract. The contract contains a 9% wage increase over three years, an increase in benefits and other protections. The vote to accept the...
by Media Team | Sep 23, 2008 | News
Human Rights Hearing: “Healthcare is a Human Right” to be held at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church in Brattleboro, Thursday September 25 at 7:00 p.m. Brattleboro – For months volunteers for the Vermont Workers’...
by Media Team | Sep 15, 2008 | News
This resolution was approved unanimously September 14th at 2008 Vermont State Labor Council Convention: REAFFIRM OUR SUPPORT FOR SINGLE PAYER UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE Submitted by: Washington-Orange-Lamoille and Champlain Valley Central Labor Councils & UAW Local...