Press Releases

After the board’s second refusal to bargain since Friday, teachers urge school board to negotiate immediately after meeting to avert strike

While holding out hope board will settle fair contract before Wednesday’s strike deadline, REA members will set up strike offices

Putting lie to their professed ‘love’ of teachers, board takes hostile action instead of joining union for settlement talks

Working 311 days without a contract, Rutland Education Association members will walk off their jobs May 14 in first Vermont teachers’ strike in nearly a decade

Working 310 days without a contract, Rutland Education Association members will determine path after nearly 18 months of protracted talks

In filing before Vermont Labor Relations Board, Union alleges board acted in bad faith.

State’s largest union urges Governor Scott, Attorney General Clark, and Education Secretary Saunders to stand up against the president’s extortion threat

Statement on Governor Scott's education proposal.

Coupled with elimination of education property tax, reforms to school funding and healthcare could bring widespread relief to Vermont’s middle class

A legislatively mandated report presented to the Green Mountain Care Board concludes serious work needs to be done before our entire healthcare system collapses. We agree, and believe a much better healthcare future is possible if we truly want it.