Yesterday, VWC President Ellen Schwartz gave this speech at the 2015 Burlington Labor Day celebration:
Twelve years before President Grover Cleveland established the Labor Day holiday, Matthew Maguire -- a machinists’ union leader and socialist from Paterson NJ and one of the organizers of the Central Labor Union of NY -- proposed a “Mammoth Festival, Parade, and Pic-Nic.”
On September 1,we’re teaming up with our long-time allies at Healthcare Is a Human Right-Maryland, the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, Put People First! Pennsylvania, and the Southern Maine Workers’ Center, to launch the Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative!
Tune in: Healthcare Is a Human Right Collaborative launch webinar
RSVP here
For Immediate Release: August 13 2015
Contact: Keith Brunner, 802-363-9615
Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign condemns 2016 VT Health Connect rate hikes
The Vermont Workers’ Center offers our deepest condolences to the family of Department of Children and Families worker Lara Sobel, as well as those of Rhonda and Regina Herring and Julie Ann Falzarano, all of whom were tragically killed on Friday in central Vermont.
Today, Vermont Workers' Center President Ellen Schwartz was featured in this article in Common Dreams.
Wishing Happy Birthday to Medicare, Communities Demand Healthcare for All
by Sarah Lazare
For Immediate Release: July 28 2015
Contact: Keith Brunner, 802-363-9615
Healthcare is a Human Right Campaign statement on proposed 2016 Vermont Health Connect rate increase
Dear VWC Members and Supporters,
Following a great deal of consideration and with tremendous gratitude, I’m writing to let you know that I am leaving my position as the Executive Director of the Vermont Workers’ Center.
This OpEd by VWC lead organizer Kate Kanelstein was published in the Rutland Herald, VT Digger, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, and Burlington Free Press.
Summer is here, and our movement for people and the planet is heating up.
May Day 2015 Vermont