High Road Vermont is a Labor-Religion initiative to create a family-wage supporting economy through promoting:

• Community and worker centered economic development

• Research and advocacy that serves organizing and policy initiatives

• Community support for workers’ efforts to organize so that they are not fired, humiliated or intimidated for choosing to have a voice on the job

• Faith community support for worker justice

• Progressive economic policies

• Sponsoring popular economics education

• A broad social movement for economic justice

• Labor media



We seek to build a Vermont economy based on skills, innovation, opportunity, sustainability and equitably shared prosperity rather than on "low-road" practices that lower living and working standards and weaken communities. We prioritize organizing projects, policy campaigns and civic collaborations that empower low-wage workers, their families and communities.



Our roots are in Vermont’s livable wage campaign, new union organizing, and the expressions of community support embodied in the Vermont Workers Center and interfaith solidarity work. We are part of a wave of economic justice organizing that is emerging. This new organizing and networking activity is producing:

• Worker centers, revitalized unions, and labor-community-interfaith collaboration;

• Proactive policy initiatives around job creation and job quality;

• New standards of corporate accountability and government responsibility;

• Linkage with broad policy issues such as economic development and environmental protection.