minimum wage

RAD-TV Presents: $15 Minimum Wage and Paid Family Leave - What happened and where do we go from here? 07/30/2019

This month on RAD-TV we speak with Kate Logan, Director of Programming and Policy at RAD, Joshua Wronski, Executive Director of the Vermont Progressive Party, and Representative Tom Stevens, Representative of Washington-Chittenden. Our guests are joined by the host for the show, Tom Proctor!

Kate Logan discusses RAD's work on the two bills almost at the finish line, and what work is being done now to ensure that both bills make it to the Governor's desk in the next legislative session.

Josh Wronski discusses how they are preparing for the next legislative session, what other bills are going to be introduced to help workers in Vermont, and how do we avoid this happening again.

Tom Stevens lends his view to the Democrats position and what their plan is for the upcoming legislative session.

Vermont Interfaith Action: Wages and Housing 03/19/2019

Gene Bergman, from the First Unitarian Universalist Society of Burlington and the Economic Justice Task Force, is joined by Virginia Munkelwitz, from the Affordable Housing Coalition and the Christ Church Presbyterian, to discuss the connections between wages in Vermont and affordable housing.

More information at: (802) 651-8889 | office@viavt.org | www.viavt.org

VT State House - S.40 - Minimum Wage - 4/5/18 04/05/2018

House Committee on General, Housing & Military Affairs hears expert testimony from the VT Department of Labor on the state of the economy & its relationship to S.40 - Increasing the Minimum Wage.

VT State House - S.40 - Minimum Wage 02/13/2018

Senate Committee on Appropriations - February 13, 2018

Vermont Interfaith Action: Progress Toward a Moral Economy 07/18/2017

Rev. Ken White, VIA Clergy Caucus, speaks with Debbie Ingram, VIA Executive Director, about racial justice policies, fair wages for workers, and new legislation working its way through the Vermont General Assembly that would create an insurance pool for workers' paid leave.

More information at: (802) 651-8889 | office@viavt.org | www.viavt.org

Fight for 15! - Rally and Speak-out for $15 Minimum Wage in Vermont 01/23/2017

Vermonters rally and speak out at the Burlington City Hall for a $15/hr minimum wage in Vermont.

Fight for $15 02/12/2014

From New York, to Chicago, to Seattle, to here in Vermont, workers are fed up with low pay, no benefits, and intimidation by bosses. While the richest in our society sit on a hoard of billions of dollars, most of us don't even have the right to take the day off if we're sick. Enough is Enough! Panelists speak to the issues: Trish Kahle, Workers' Organizing Committee of Chicago - Tristin Adie, Vermont Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals - Tina Escaja, United Academics - Tom Kingston (st. Michael's College Staff) - CCTA Bus Drivers (Teamsters) - Sodexo food service worker (Vermont Fair Food Campaign)