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Let’s build more housing together with union labor 2026-01-21 [Waterbury Roundabout]

Black Cap Coffee’s employees protest unfair labor practices 2025-12-07 [WCAX]

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]

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]

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

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]