by Media Team | Sep 2, 2005 | News
By James Haslam When we celebrate Labor Day, we celebrate the contributions of the hard-working families who get up every day to make society run. Postal workers deliver our mail, iron workers construct our buildings, firefighters and health care workers save our...
by Media Team | Jul 15, 2005 | News
By James Haslam – Published: July 15, 2005Montpelier Times-Argus For several years, there was a steady flow of calls to the Workers’ Center’s Workers Rights Hotline from workers in downtown Montpelier. All kinds of workers in all kinds of workplaces...
by Media Team | Jul 5, 2005 | News
Brian McGroryBoston GlobeJuly 5, 2005 Their journey should have ended far better than it did. Last week, a group of Vermont bristle factory workers who are being dismissed from their jobs with a mere two weeks severance pay decided to come to Boston and make their...
by Media Team | Jun 24, 2005 | News
By Eesha Williams | Special to the Vermont Guardian BENNINGTON — Three Latino men at a gathering of about 40 supporters in Bennington Thursday said a Pennsylvania-based construction company had refused to pay them for weeks of work. Only one of the men spoke English....
by Media Team | Jun 20, 2005 | News
From the Montpelier Times-Argus: Published: June 19, 2005 Adnan Rashed spent years in exile when labor unions were outlawed in his native Iraq. The 56-year-old was a prime mover in the Workers’ Democratic Trade Union Movement, which was a giant thorn in the side...
