As an employee and shareholder of the Brattleboro Food Co-op, I have to question the validity of many of the signatures on the petition during the recent union organization drive [News, Sept. 12].
When questionable and inappropriate tactics are used to get people to sign, that is not a “vote” for the union.
People are signing so that they will be left alone after being approached over and over again, usually while they are trying to work.
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Andre Jaeger, who will start his job as finance director on May 20, will bring to the position experience working in the private, municipal, and higher education sectors. Town Manager Peter Elwell said that Jaeger joins the town after serving as Keene State College's budget director. According to Elwell, the college eliminated the position on May 1 as part of a staff-reduction and restructuring process. Jaeger steps into his new role during an uncertain time for the community, thanks to...
The Legislature is taking up a bill to make drivers' licenses and identification cards available for all Vermont residents. This is important, because a driver's license provides essential mobility in our rural state to fulfill fundamental human needs and rights to access health care, food, transportation, housing, socializing, and work. Currently, many undocumented migrant workers are not able to get a driver's license. Farmers rely on migrant workers to produce our dairy products, fruits, and vegetables. Both farmers and their...
The Rock River Players present The Fantasticks by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones July 19-23 at Williamsville Hall on Dover Road. The Fantasticks tells an allegorical story, loosely based on the play The Romancers (Les Romanesques) by Edmond Rostand, about two neighboring parents who, by pretending to feud, trick their children, Luisa and Matt, into falling in love. The mothers - fathers in most productions - hire traveling actors to stage a mock abduction, so that Matt can heroically “save”
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