Unions

St. Albans dairy workers are back on the job after their union contract was ratified. What does this say about the broader labor movement regionally and nationwide?

The union members secured a contract with higher pay and improved workplace conditions after picketing for nearly two weeks.

After weeks of contentious deliberations, a school bus company and its Brattleboro drivers have come to a tentative agreement on a contract.

Negotiations stretched well into the night. The Vermont-NEA announced that a deal had been reached in a short statement released just after midnight.

If the two sides don’t settle before next Wednesday, it would be the first teachers’ strike in Vermont in nearly a decade. Burlington teachers went on strike for four days in 2017.

The union representing health care and higher education employees, AFT Vermont, says it’s doubled the number of workers in its ranks over the last six years.

Nursing staff at Vermont's largest hospital will receive a 23% pay increase over the next three years. The agreement averts a strike that could have cost the medical center over $10 million.

The University of Vermont Medical Center is preparing to bring in about 500 nurses to work there next week. That's after the union representing around 2,000 nurses at the hospital issued a strike notification Monday.

In 2022, UVM Staff United negotiated a contract with the university administration that raised wages and increased benefits. Now, that contract is ending.

The proposed constitutional amendment would protect the rights of employees in Vermont to organize and collectively bargain.