Vermont Workers' Center

Summer is here, and our movement for people and the planet is heating up.

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 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%.      

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.