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
Press Release: May 1st, 2015
Contact: Keith Brunner, Vermont Workers’ Center, 802-363-9615
Hundreds join Vermont May Day demonstration, march through Vermont statehouse
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!
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%.
NOTE: This OpEd by VWC director James Haslam as so far run in the Rutland Herald, Barre-Montpelier Times Argus, and VTDigger.