Main Street not Wall Street! Action October 1st

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...
Healthcare System Put on Trial In Brattleboro

Healthcare System Put on Trial In Brattleboro

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...

Northrup Grummon workers win contract in St. Albans!

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...

September 25: Brattleboro Human Rights Hearing

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’...

Vermont AFL-CIO Endorses Campaign

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...