{"id":813517,"date":"2026-08-14T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813517\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:00:13","slug":"healthcare-workers-plan-picketing-outside-uvm-medical-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/813517\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare workers plan picketing outside UVM Medical Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Workers and community members are expected to picket outside the University of Vermont Medical Center on Friday following the expiration of a contract for more than 3,000 support staff and technical professionals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Since the contract has expired, union workers can legally hold work stoppages and pickets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Labor union AFT Vermont said the unions have been bargaining with the hospital since April to update their contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The unions said they want livable wages and improved staffing enforcement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The picketing is expected outside the hospital\u2019s main entrance.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Workers and community members are expected to picket outside the University of Vermont Medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[55670,15907,17590,4084,97,252,253,134,955,3,345097,15557,6671,281430,27076,68894,34752,8586],"class_list":["post-813517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-burlington","tag-care","tag-center","tag-employment","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-jobs","tag-medical","tag-news","tag-picket","tag-union","tag-university","tag-uvm","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=813517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}