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St. Albans dairy workers go on strike 2025-09-27 [Vermont Public]

For Vermont mental health workers, grit and guts turn the tide against anti-union employer 2025-01-14 [AFSCME]

AFL-CIO President Liz Schuler Attacks Vermont AFL-CIO Election Practices For more info 2024-06-21 [LVP]

How Reformers Doubled Vermont AFL-CIO Membership 2024-05-23 [Labour Notes]

Ben & Jerry's and Vermont scoop shop employees reach contract agreement 2024-01-19 [The Financial Post]

Vermont’s New AFL-CIO President Is a Democratic Socialist and Labor Reformer 2023-12-29 [Portside]

Ben & Jerry’s ice cream ‘scoopers’ are launching a union drive at the chain’s flagship store in Vermont over pay, health benefit and a say in staffing 2023-04-17 [Fortune]

Ben & Jerry’s Agrees to Workers’ Proposed Principles in Union Bid 2023-04-28 [Bloomberg]

Employees at Ben & Jerry’s Burlington store celebrate company’s commitment to fair union negotiations 2023-04-28 [VT Digger]

‘Fight for the things you believe in:’ Meet the Jewish student leading the union at Ben & Jerry’s flagship store 2023-04-25 [Forward]

Ben & Jerry’s Paves Way for Union at Vermont Store 2023-04-29 [NYTimes]

Bernie Sanders praises shop workers, Ben & Jerry's on union effort 2023-04-29 [News4Jax]

Ben & Jerry’s workers announce plan to unionize at store 2023-04-18 [MSN]

Scoopers at Ben and Jerry's flagship store in Vermont seek to form union 2023-04-17 [Washington Post]

Workers deserve ‘good cause’ job protections 2023-02-21 [Digger]

The Railroad Workers, Democrats & The Class Struggle With David Van Deusen President Vermont AFL-CIO For more info 2022-12-10 [LVP]

Working in the Heat - What to Know for Workers 2022-09-08 [VT DOL]

How migrant workers took on Ben & Jerry's – and won a historic agreement 2018-02-25 [Guardian]

VT Workers' Comp Rates to Decrease for Third Year in a Row 2019-02-21 [Insurance Jrnl]

Out of the office: Keurig Dr. Pepper's Waterbury workers to stay remote ... permanently 2021-09-11 [Waterbury Roundabout]

Randolph McDonald's franchisee to pay $1.6M for sexual harassment of workers 2022-07-01 [WCAX]

General Strike, Fascism, Coups and A Democratic Labor Movement With Vermont AFL-CIO David Van Deusen For more info 2022-05-24 [LVP]

Ukraine, War & Labor: Presentation by Vermont AFL-CIO Executive Director Liz Medina For more info 2022-04-05 [LVP]

Fascism, Imperialism & Labor With Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen For more info 2022-02-13 [LVP]

It's Time To Prepare For Fascists! David Van Deusen, President of Vermont AFL-CIO On Struggles For more info 2021-09-09 [LVP]

The Fight To Defend Working People and The AFL-CIO With Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen For more info 2021-04-30 [LVP]

Possible Trump Coup and Vermont AFL-CIO Call For General Strike with Vermont AFL-CIO President David Van Deusen For more info 2020-11-23 [LVP]

Workers Who Responded to COVID-19 Crisis Qualify for Grants of Up to $2,000 2020-08-04 [Seven Days VT]

VT state workers to see one-time bonus payment 2020-07-02 [WCAX]

VT labor unions plan car picket in Burlington 2020-06-09 [WCAX]

Vermont House overrides minimum wage veto 2020-02-27 [WCAX]

We need a progressively funded, union-based Green New Deal 2019-12-24 [Mountain Times]

High school soccer team penalized for removing jerseys, revealing '#Equalpay' t-shirts 2019-10-24 [USA Today]

Barre board considers tweaking teacher evaluation process 2019-08-24 [Times Argus]

Union Claims Howard Center Tried to Stifle Federal Investigation 2018-09-26 [Seven Days]

Nurses Picket as Strike Starts at UVM Medical Center 2018-07-13 [Seven Days]

UVM Medical Center Nurses to Hold Official Strike Vote 2018-06-08 [Seven Days]

In Rare Move, Senate Committee Rejects Gov Scott Labor Board Appointee 2018-05-10 [Seven Days VT]

Administration responds to teacher union call for statewide health insurance 2018-04-14 [VTBiz]

Union Slams Scott Administration Over Prescription Drug Changes 2018-04-04 [Seven Days]

Border Patrol Arrests Two Mexican Farm Workers 2017-06-20 [Seven Days]

About 100 Protest Detention of Vermont Farm Worker Advocates 2017-03-28 [US News and World Report]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

1-11-1962 Strike at New York Daily News by the Newspaper Guild precedes a larger strike at multiple newspapers [more]

1-11-1918 Scab driver crashes a NYC subway train during labour dispute: 97 die, 255 injured. [more]

1-11-1835 Philadelphia - first general strike in US history - for a 10 hour. [more]

1-11-1919 Some 400,000 soft coal miners strike for higher wages and shorter hours. [more]

1-11-1887 37 black sugar workers are killed in Louisiana when the militia and some citizens shoot at unarmed strikers demanding a salary of $ 1 a day. Two organizers are lynched. [more]

2-11-1920 SPUSA and railway workers' union leader Eugene V. Debs receives nearly one million votes for Presidency of the United States. [more]

2-11-1909 150 arrested in IWW free speech fight, Spokane, Washington [more]

3-11-1921 Striking milk truck drivers in New York City dump thousands of gallons of milk on the streets. [more]

5-11-1885 Eugene V. Debs, leading figure in the railway workers unions, the IWW and the American Socialist Party, was born. [more]

8-11-1892 20,000 workers, black and white, strike in New Orleans for union recognition and wage increases. [more]

9-11-1935 The Committee for Industrial Organization is formed, breaking away from the American Federation of Labor. [more]

10-11-1933 America's first Depression-era sit-down strike occurs at the Hormel food plant in Austin, Minnesota. [more]

11-11-1831 Slave rebellion leader Nat Turner is hanged for his role leading a slave revolt 3 months earlier in Virginia. [more]

11-11-1887 Execution of the Haymarket Martyrs for their alleged role in the bombing at a labour rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago a year earlier. [more]

12-11-1892 Workers in New Orleans win a 10 hour day and overtime pay, after a four-day general strike led by racially integrated unions [more]

13-11-1974 Oil, Chemical & Atomic Workers union activist Karen Silkwood dies in suspicious car crash while driving documents to a reporter. [more]

14-11-1938 Foundation of the National Federation of Telephone Workers (later Communications Workers of America) in New Orleans. [more]

16-11-1948 In solidarity with the French miners' strike, American dockers refuse to load coal bound for France. [more]

18-11-1938 The Congress of Industrial Organisations elects John L. Lewis as its first president [more]

19-11-1915 Joe Hill, a Swedish-American organiser for the Industrial Workers of the World, is framed and executed for murder in Utah. [more]

20-11-1896 Rose Pesotta born. Anarchist labour activist & only woman on board of Intl Ladies’ Garment Workers Union (ILGWU). [more]

26-11-1913 Wobblies Joe Ettor Arturo Giovannitti and Joseph Caruso acquitted for murdering picket Anna LoPizzo during the Lawrence textile workers strike. [more]

27-11-1884 Anarchist A.R. Parsons addresses a Thanksgiving Day hunger march in Chicago. [more]

28-11-1908 154 coal miners die in an explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania. Engineer and Superintendent Beeson informs newspapers that he inspected it a few minutes before the explosion and found it in perfect condition. [more]

29-11-1980 Dorothy Day, suffragist, Christian anarchist, and founder of the Catholic Worker movement, dies today in New York City aged 83. [more]

30-11-1951 Over 12,000 insurance agents strike in 35 states and Washington DC against the Prudential Insurance Company [more]

30-11-1930 Death of Mother Jones (Mary Harris Jones). Considered "the most dangerous woman in America" by politicians and employers. Founding member of IWW, organized steel, railroad, textile, mine workers, and women. Crusaded against child labor. [more]