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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

6-03-1913 Joe Hill's song "There is Power in a Union" first appeared in the @_IWW union's Little Red Song Book. [more]

7-03-1932 Unemployed workers stage a hunger march to the Ford complex at Dearborn, demanding workers be rehired. Police shoot at the demonstration, killing 4 and injuring 60 [more]

7-03-1860 Some 6,000 shoemakers, later joined by 20,000 other workers, are on strike in Lynn, Massachussets. They get wage increases but not recognition for their union. [more]

7-03-1920 “Hunger march” by the unemployed to the Ford factories in Dearborn, asking for help and hiring. Police shoot at crowd, killing 4 and injuring 60 people. [more]

8-03-1942 Lucy Parsons, founding member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), and powerful orator for women, working people, and political prisoners died. [more]

8-03-1926 Fur & Leather Workers Union (mostly women) went on strike in NYC, enduring beatings by police. They won a 10% raise and a five-day week. [more]

9-03-1910 Westmoreland County Coal strikes begins, ending in 1911. It is known as the 'Slovak strike', as 70% of the miners are Slovakian. 16 people are killed. [more]

11-03-1950 TWU members at American Airlines win 11-day national strike, gaining what the union says was the first severance pay clause in industry. [more]

12-03-1929 Lupe Anguiano, women's rights activist and labour organizer, is born. [more]

12-03-1912 The Bread and Roses strikers won all their demands. The strike was organized by mostly women workers and the Industrial Workers of the World and included 20,000 workers. [more]

13-03-1830 The term “rat,” referring to a worker who betrays fellow workers, first appears in print in the New York Daily Sentinel [more]

15-03-1917 The Supreme Court approves the 8-hour day law as rail workers threaten national strike. [more]

15-03-1948 National strike by bituminous coal miners demanding pensions. [more]

16-03-1960 The United Teachers' Federation is formed in New York to represent public school teachers and later all education workers in the metropolis. [more]

18-03-1937 New York City police arrested striking Woolworth's store clerks - mostly women - who had occupied stores demanding a 40-hour workweek. [more]

31-03-1927 Cesar Chavez, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]