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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: AFL-CIO President Celebrates Historic Worker Rights Milestone in Vermont

On May Day, AFL-CIO President Liz Shuler visited Vermont, where she witnessed the passage of a historic constitutional amendment and attended a May Day rally on the State House lawn. Proposal 3 would enshrine the right to form a union and collectively bargain into the state constitution, just as Illinois did in 2022.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Central Vermont Medical Center Support Staff Votes to Join Union

Support staff at Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) overwhelmingly voted last week to join the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) Vermont.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Workers Join UFCW Local 371

More than 90 Ben & Jerry’s ice cream processing workers at the Waterbury, Vermont, plant joined the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 371.
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Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Vermont’s Unions Respond to Flooding

Vermont residents are again facing the reality of destruction on a massive scale. Roads are gone, cities and towns are flooded, and many residents remain cut off from the outside world. There are still serious dangers regarding the integrity of dams, and soon residents will face the problem of dwindling basic supplies like food and fuel. Vermonters have prevailed over such challenges before and will do so again.