The Struggle

A poem dedicated to the Steering Committee of the Vermont Workers’ Center and performed at the 2nd Annual Burlington Labor Day Weekend Parade & Picnic at Battery Park August 31, 2002. By James Haslam All these plant closings keep going down.Town after...

Vermont’s Workers Need to Protect Their Rights

August 2002 By Dawn Stanger, Vermont Workers Center Steering Committee Member It’s only natural for employers to seek concessions from workers. Improvements in working conditions, wages, benefits and Vermont’s environment — all undermine profits. The...

Free Trade Is Bad For Everybody

(That is, except Executives and Shareholders of Mega Corporations) Op-Ed in Rutland Herald, August 2002by James Haslam On August 6th the Rutland Herald ran an editorial “Back On Track” which began “President Bush signed legislation Tuesday giving him...

Three commentaries on the state budget crisis

Three commentaries by Workers’ Center Steering Committee member Dawn Stanger on the state budget crisis. An Op-ed from the Burlington Free Press, a “That’s the Way I See It” commentary from WNCS, and a statement from a February 28, 2002 rally...

Proposed Cuts Will Hurt All Vermonters

Op-Ed in Burlington Free Press, February 2002 By Tenaya Lafore, Vermont Workers Center Steering Committee Member In his Jan. 22 budget speech, Gov. Howard Dean proposed major cuts to health care and other essential public programs. In doing so, the governor threatened...