WHAT WE STAND FOR

We all deserve safety and respect at work. We all deserve to earn livable wages. We all deserve to have affordable healthcare and childcare. When Vermonters stand up to fight for these things, the Vermont Workers’ Center is there to support them.

"Free trade” policies and corporate globalization have taken a hard toll in Vermont. Thousands of good paying jobs have been lost and public services are threatened.

Across the state, the Vermont Workers’ Center is organizing people to create a fair economy for workers, where our rights and dignity are respected.

OUR MISSION

The Vermont Workers' Center is a democratic, member-run organization dedicated to organizing for workers' rights and living wages for all Vermonters.

We seek an economically just and democratic Vermont in which all residents have living wages, decent health care, childcare, housing and transportation.

We work to build a democratic, diverse movement of working Vermonters that is locally focused and coordinated on a statewide basis. We work with organized labor in moving towards economic justice and in strengthening the right to organize. We are committed to taking action on the full range of issues of concern to working people, and to building alliances nationally and internationally.

WHAT WE DO

The Vermont Workers’ Center is made up of hundreds of individuals and dozens of organizations (unions, churches, community groups, etc) and is dedicated to protecting and expanding the rights of all working Vermonters.

By organizing rallies, public hearings, forums, publicizing peoples' stories, and taking direct action, we support workers throughout the state who are trying to improve their wages, benefits, rights on the job, working conditions and their communities.

OUR HISTORY

In the spring of 1996, a group of low-income workers in Central Vermont started the Workers' Center.

In the Fall of 2001, the Workers' Center affiliated with the national organization called Jobs With Justice. Founded in 1987, JWJ's mission is to improve working people's standard of living, fight for job security, and protect workers' right to organize. There are now over 40 local coalitions of Jobs With Justice across the country.

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