workers' rights

Going Postal!

Posted 12/19/2011

Organize to Defend Our Postal Service & Vermont Jobs

At a time when we desperately need to create decent-paying jobs, the Postal Service plans to slash 100,000 jobs, shut down many rural post offices, and end Saturday mail delivery, most immediately closing over 250 mail processing centers. This includes closing the White River Junction center with the loss of 245 jobs, and threats to close Essex Junction. This would slow first-class mail, ending next-day deliveries, and put the postal service into a death spiral.

Join the Picket & Rally in Solidarity with Verizon Workers on Strike

August 17, 2011 - 5:00pm - August 20, 2011 - 1:00pm

45,000 Verizon workers have been forced out on strike by a corporation intent on outsourcing their jobs, cutting their health care and pension benefits, and working conditions despite earning record profits.

Rally to protest the frontal assault on unions and the middle class! RNC Architect on Attack on Workers to Speak in Burlington

April 13, 2011 - 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Wednesday, April 13 · 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Call To Organizational Action!

FILM: "Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad" (a little bit of so much truth)

April 9, 2011 - 7:00pm

In the summer of 2006, a broad-based, non-violent, popular uprising exploded in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. With its origins in a public-sector workers' struggle (a teachers' strike), the uprising in Oaxaca was not unlike what we are currently seeing in Wisconsin and other states.

But it was the people’s use of the media that truly made history in Oaxaca.

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FILM: "At The River I Stand" documentary of MLK and Memphis sanitation workers strike

April 3, 2011 - 6:00pm - 8:00pm

6pm, Sunday, April 3rd
Vermont Workers' Center
294 N. Winooski Ave, Burlington

The People's University For Learning & Liberation (PULL) film series presents

“At The River I Stand”

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Support the Striking Shaw's Workers: SOLIDARITY ACTION in KEENE, NH

April 3, 2010 - 10:00am - 12:00pm

Saturday, April 3
10am-Noon
Shaw's Supermarket, Winchester Street, NH

On March 7, over 300 warehouse workers in Methuen, MA, were forced on strike to protect their affordable healthcare. Shaw's has refused to bargain in good faith, and wants to shift unaffordable healthcare costs to its workers. More recently, Shaw's announced that they were both permanently replacing the striking workers, and laying off 600 other workers, who were encouraged to apply for the warehouse positions.

Solidarity Action: Support Shaw's Workers

March 29, 2010 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm

SOLIDARITY ACTION with Striking Shaw's & Star Market Workers
Noon, Monday, March 29
C&S Warehouse, 47 Old Ferry Road Brattleboro

New Resource for Vermont's Union Members

Posted 11/18/2009

VWC has just become an affiliate of Union Communication Services, a 100 percent union bookstore which offers the largest, most varied and helpful selection of hand-picked books ever created for union leaders, activists and rank-and-file members. Tools for activists, resources for negotiators, health and safety, economics and labor history, even books for young adults and children. Purchase items through the UCS Online Book Catalog and support the Workers' Center!

Public Meeting of Unemployment Benefit Study Committee

September 9, 2009 - 9:00am - 10:00am

Stop Cuts to Unemployment Benefits:
There is a major battle over unemployment compensation ongoing in the Vermont Legislature. Cuts to benefits and eligibility are a very real concern. To date, the lion’s share of the successful efforts at holding back the Douglas Administration's nasty proposal to cut benefits has been borne by the building trades unions. This is an issue that effects all workers. Let us know if you would like to work with the VWC to make sure that more working Vermonters voices are part of the discussion.

Press Conference Rite Aid and EFCA

August 11, 2009 - 3:00pm - 3:30pm

Employee Free Choice supporters blast Rite Aid with new report on company's union busting at West Coast warehouse
Activists stage protests at Rite Aid stores in six cities, including Burlington.

Vermont Workers' Center Press Conference
When: 3pm, Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Where: Outside Rite Aid, corner of Cherry Street & S. Winooski Ave, Burlington

See full press release: http://www.workerscenter.org/node/107

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