by Media Team | Sep 28, 2007 | News
Dozens of parents, community members and kids joined Fletcher Allen Health Care (FAHC) midwives and the president of FAHC nurses union UPV/AFT Local 5221, Jennifer Henry, RN. They came to ask questions and plan how to stop FAHC’s attempt attempt to eliminate the...
by Media Team | Sep 11, 2007 | News
Dozens of Burlington workers and residents attended Burlington School Board meeting to demand livable wages. Broad community delegation reads Board their statement: BURLINGTON LIVABLE CITY DELEGATION STATEMENT: “THE TIME FOR LIVABLE WAGES FOR BURLINGTON SCHOOL SUPPORT...
by Media Team | Sep 10, 2007 | News
Let’s Engage Our Members to Bring Our Troops Home . . .and Take Care of Them When They Return 70% of Americans are against the war in Iraq. Yet our political leaders have failed to end it. We must find new ways to force an end to U.S. military involvement in Iraq. It...
by Media Team | Sep 5, 2007 | News
Remembering Our Past For Our Children’s SakeBy James HaslamBurlington Free Press My Turn, Labor Day, Sept 3rd, 2007(A longer version which ran August 30th in Bennington Banner can be viewed by clicking here) Labor Day has lost much of its original meaning....
by Media Team | Sep 4, 2007 | News
Salt of the Earth is the first and only film ever blacklisted in the U.S. Telling the story of a zinc mine strike in 1950-51, and produced using few professional actors (most of the actors are actual miners, many of them involved in the strike), the film shows workers...
by Media Team | Aug 18, 2007 | News
Rebecca Smith, BEA President and VWC USSF delegate This was easily the highlight of my first day. First off, I have never seen a room occupancy fire code violated so badly – there were so many people in the room we were literally knee to knee on the floor with no more...
