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Beneath The Surface
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Sunday, August 9, 2026 10:00 am
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1:00:03
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| Gabriel Winant, Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, Emma Galvin
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| Topics
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| UVM Med Center Unions Bargaining Fight & Common Good Campaig
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What happens when a nonprofit hospital network becomes, in the words of Vermont's own regulator, a "corporate shell game"?
UVM Medical Center was found to be over-earning by the state board that regulates it. Its response was to cut frontline union jobs — while its 19 top executives split $3 million in bonuses in a single year.
Historian Gabriel Winant , author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," explains how deindustrialization made health care the country's largest employer, but the jobs are understaffed, lower-paid, and more precarious.
We hear from AFT Vermont union leaders --Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, and Emma Galvin — fighting for safe staffing as their contract heads toward an August 13th deadline. They describe their work conditions and demands: a chemo scheduler three weeks behind before her day even starts, a still-unimplemented 2011 universal health care law, and a "milk with dignity" campaign that extends to protecting immigrant co
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