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
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%.