Solidarity Request: Support UNAP members at Copley Hospital.
This summer, Copley Hospital administrators announced plans to close the Copley Birthing Center on Nov. 1st, despite a growing chorus of community members, legislators, and healthcare workers warning that this would represent an unacceptable risk to families in the region.

Click here to call on Green Mountain Care Board Chair Owen Foster to use his authority to keep the Copley Hospital Birthing Center open.

“No Kings” Day of Action

October 18th, 2025

Events happening in: Barre, Bellows Falls, Bennington, Brandon, Brattleboro, Burlington, Chester, Essex Junction, Fairfax, Hardwick, Jericho, Manchester, Milton, Montpelier, Newbury, Newport, Orford NH, Pawlet, Randolph, Richford, Royalton, Rutland, Saint Albans City, Saint Johnsbury, Shelburne, South Burlington, Vergennes, Waitsfield, Wallingford, White River Junction, Williston, Wilmington, Windsor, Winooski, Wolcott, Woodstock

Full list of events and details here

The People’s Summit – Organizing Resistance Against Trump & the Billionaires
Saturday, October 15th, 2025
9 am- 7 pm
60 Norman St., Winooski
RSVP

Save the Date- AFT Lobby Day
February 26th, 2025
[Tentative] 10 am- 4 pm lobby day; 4 pm-6 pm legislative reception
Vermont State House, Room 11

In the summer of 2024, UVMMC Management unilaterally changed the schedules of all of the workers in the Patient Access & Service Center from a 30 min to a 1 hour unpaid lunch break. Support Staff United filed a grievance. Alexandrea anticipated the schedule change would be an issue for her in the fall because she is responsible for taking her daughter to school. At the time, her supervisor gave her permission to go on “Not Ready” on the phone system while she did the school drop off. This supervisor left UVMMC and when the manager of the department found out Alexandrea was taking her daughter to school during her shift, she did not believe there was an agreement with the prior supervisor and fired Alexandrea. Support Staff United filed a grievance, which UVMMC denied, and union leadership voted to take the case to arbitration. 

At the arbitration hearing, Alexandrea did an excellent job testifying truthfully to support her case that she had not committed “serious gross misconduct” as alleged by UVMMC. Management’s witnesses, on the other hand, would not answer simple yes or no questions about the case and ultimately the arbitrator found them to be a “less reliable witness” than Alexandrea. It was clear that progressive discipline was not followed. 

Three months after the hearing, we got the news that WE WON: Alexandrea is eligible for reinstatement and to be made whole for all financial losses as a result of the termination. We are excited to welcome Alexandrea back as a union member and that our first arbitration was a success. 

Brattleboro hospital CEO on leave amid fears about the not-for-profit’s fiscal health
VTDigger, by Kevin O’Connor
October 6th, 2025

Brattleboro Memorial Hospital CEO on leave of absence while solvency questioned
Brattleboro Reformer, by Chris Mays
October 7th 2025

50K Vermonters to seek new Medicare coverage as major insurers exit market
WCAX, by Calvin Cutler
October 7th, 2025

[Podcast] The state of the labor movement in Vermont 
Vermont Public, by Mikaela LeFrak, Jon Ehrens
October 8th, 2025

State government workers living outside Vermont must also follow return-to-office policy
VTDigger, by Ethan Weinstein
October 3rd, 2025 

Distant State Workers Get Nine Months to Relocate
SevenDays, by Kevin McCallum
October 3rd, 2025

[Podcast] 'It's an equity issue': Gov. Phil Scott defends his return-to-office order
Vermont Public, by Mikaela Lefrak and Daniela Fierro
October 6th, 2025

St. Albans dairy workers ratify a contract, ending strike
Vermont Public, by Adiah Gholston
October 7th, 2025 

Deal reached between striking workers and dairy processing plant 
WCAX, by WCAX News Team
October 8th, 2025

Vermont’s U.S. Rep. Becca Balint: ‘We have to hold the line’ on health insurance subsidies
VTDigger, by Olivia Gieger
October 3rd, 2025   

Vermont's Congressional Delegation Vows to 'Hold the Line' Amid Shutdown
SevenDays, by Colin Flanders
October 6th, 2025

[Podcast] Sen. Peter Welch on the shutdown: 'The political system is not working'  
Vermont Public, by Mikaela Lefrak and Andrea Laurion
October 7th, 2025