Maine AFL-CIO

 

Juneteenth & Fund the Frontlines!

  • Celebrating Juneteenth
  • Workers Call on Senators King and Collins to Take Action to Fund the Frontlines
  • Check out the New Local S6 Temp Tales Episode!
  • Register Now for COPE Convention Awards Ceremony & Zoom Trainings
  • Tell the Mills Administration to Provide Relief for Laid Off Workers
  • Don’t Forget to Request an Absentee Ballot for the July Primary!

Join the Caravan!

IN THIS EDITION: 

  • Local S6 Members Rally for a Fair Contract
  • State & Local Aid Car Caravan in Bangor — Thurs. June 19th at Noon!
  • National AFL-CIO Calls for Action on Racism & Police Violence
  • Victory for Techs at NLMC Hospital
  • Maine AFL-CIO Announces Primary Endorsements for State Legislature
  • Deadline Coming to Register for COPE Convention

Continuing the Fight for Racial & Economic Justice

IN THIS EDITION:

  • Continuing the Fight for Racial & Economic Justice
  • Show Your Support for BIW Workers
  • Need Silk Screening Done? Go Union!
  • Don't Forget to Nominate Your Favorite Steward of the Year
  • Union Members Provide Food Boxes for Health Care Workers
  • 100 Years Ago the Maine Workers Called for Universal Health Care

Backing Our Shipbuilding Brothers & Sisters

IN THIS EDITION:

  • Local S6 Entering Negotiations with Bath Iron Works Next Week
  • Maine Union Members Manufacturing Nasal Swab Machines for COVID-19 Testing
  • Have You Been Threatened or Fired Over COVID-19 Concerns? Let us know!
  • Nurses Pressure Northern Light to Test Workers Exposed to COVID-19
  • Join Us for a Screening of “10,000 Black Men Named George” this Sunday

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You Call Us Heroes. It's Time to Treat Us Like Heroes

Working people are bearing the brunt of this global pandemic and economic crisis. The physical toll, death, pain, and suffering that Oregon’s frontline and essential workers have experienced is unprecedented.

Coupled with the economic collapse that has exacerbated long-term inequities for low wage workers and BIPOC communities, workers are hurting and they need protections.

Of Course Teachers Want Schools to Reopen

Daniel DiSalvo asks: “Will Unions Let Schools Reopen?” (op-ed, June 30). Of course! The AFT published our school reopening plan in April. We said it isn’t a question of whether to reopen, but how to do it safely. We need the infrastructure and investment to physically distance, stagger classes, provide personal protective equipment and test, trace and isolate new cases.

The Fullest Look Yet at the Racial Inequity of Coronavirus

Racial disparities in who contracts the virus have played out in big cities like Milwaukee and New York, but also in smaller metropolitan areas like Grand Rapids, Mich., where the Bradleys live. Those inequities became painfully apparent when Ms. Bradley, who is Black, was wheeled through the emergency room. Early numbers had shown that Black and Latino people were being harmed by the virus at higher rates.

Trumka: The AFL-CIO Must Fight for Trans Lives Inside and Outside the Labor Movement

This month’s historic Supreme Court ruling that LGBTQ employees are protected in the workplace by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was another step forward in the march for equality. While there is much to celebrate, this ruling comes as our nation is suffering from centuries-old systemic racism and grieving its latest victims. George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were killed by police officers. Twenty-five-year-old Ahmaud Arbery was gunned down on a run by two white men. We need to say their names, know their stories, and recognize why they were deprived of a full life.

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Support the HEROES Act

Working people are desperate for our leaders to put partisanship aside and do what is right for our health, our economy and our country. Tell your Senator to support the HEROES Act (H.R. 6800) and provide the relief working families need.

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