Gearing up for a #SummerofSolidarity.
Summer is here, and our movement for people and the planet is heating up.
May Day 2015 Video!
May Day 2015 Vermont
RELEASE: Hundreds join Vermont May Day demonstration, march through Vermont statehouse
Press Release: May 1st, 2015
Contact: Keith Brunner, Vermont Workers’ Center, 802-363-9615
Hundreds join Vermont May Day demonstration, march through Vermont statehouse
All out for May Day 2015: Here's how you can help!
This Friday is May 1st, International Workers' Day! Join hundreds of community members in the streets of Montpelier for a massive march and rally demanding justice and dignity for all people of Vermont. Meet at 11:30am at Montpelier City Hall!
We can use your help!
OpEd: Profit-based healthcare system has to go
This OpEd was written by VWC member Bekah Mandell, who lives in Burlington. It's run so far in the Barre-Montpelier Times Argus.
$587,206. That’s what Blue Cross Blue Shield CEO Don George made last year -- before his bonus.
That makes Don George one of the highest paid executives in the state of Vermont and puts him at the top of state’s 1%.
OpEd: The time is now for a real democracy
NOTE: This OpEd by VWC director James Haslam as so far run in the Rutland Herald, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, and VTDigger.
Video: Tax Day Action at Blue Cross Blue Shield VT!
This morning on Tax Day, dozens of people marched on Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont in Berlin, delivering a $15.7 million invoice for taxes they've avoided by masquerading as a non-profit, while profiting enormously off of our health.
BCBS Vice President Kevin Goddard -- who made somewhere between $288,000 to $370,000 last year, putting him in Vermont's top 1% of wage earners -- accepted the invoice, while CEO Don George made an appearance outside.
RELEASE: Universal healthcare advocates march on Blue Cross Blue Shield, deliver invoice on Tax Day
For Immediate Release: April 15th, 2015
Contact: Keith Brunner, Vermont Workers’ Center, 802-363-9615
Universal healthcare advocates march on Blue Cross Blue Shield, deliver invoice on Tax Day
**Photos and video available upon request**
Why universal healthcare is essential for a more equitable society
Source: Huffington Post
Why universal healthcare is essential for a more equitable society
By Anja Rudiger, with our partner organization National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
RELEASE: Human rights groups on budget and healthcare bills: “We’re not fooled.”
For Immediate Release: April 1st, 2015
Contact: Karen Topper, Green Mountain Self-Advocates, (802) 249-6659
Keith Brunner, Vermont Workers’ Center, (802) 363-9615
Amanda Sheppard, Vermont Homecare United AFSCME Local 4802, (802) 349-3150
Sarah Launderville, Vermont Center for Independent Living, (802) 224-1817
Human rights groups on budget and healthcare bills: “We’re not fooled.”