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Following Child Care Workers' Strike, Committee Votes to Reject Child Care Cuts

PHOTO: Early childhood educators & parents protesting at the State House Tuesday

07, Mar, 2025

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Announces Hiring Freeze, Workers Brace for Potential Mass Layoffs

Unions at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard are bracing for potential mass layoffs as part of billionaire Elon Musk’s efforts to dramatically reduce the federal workforce, including at the shipyard which employs nearly 8,000 people, including 4,300 Mainers.

07, Mar, 2025

Public Sector Retirees in Maine Receiving Retroactive Benefits Thanks to Social Security Fairness Act

PHOTO:Dan & Penny Whitney Asdourian.

07, Mar, 2025

Labor Committee Rejects Right to Work for Less on Party Lines

PHOTO: Retired nurse Amy Strum (MSNA) testifies against LD 187 on Feb. 12.

07, Mar, 2025

Building Trades Apprentices to Work on Local 14 Solidarity Center Saturday, March 15

Apprentices with IBEW 567, Laborers 327 members and possibly apprentices of Plumbers & Pipefitters 716 will be doing renovations on the Local 14 Solidarity Center in Jay on Saturday, March 15 starting at 8am.

07, Mar, 2025

Local 14 Solidarity Center Features Photos of Otis Mill Workers

Work on educational programming and the restoration of the Local 14 Union Hall is going strong, according to the Agitator, the Local 14 Solidarity Center newsletter.

07, Mar, 2025

Maine AFL-CIO Condemns Dept. of Homeland Security for Abolishing TSA Workers’ Union

Union Supporters Join WGME Workers for Informational Picket in Portland, Contract Extended

UMaine Graduate Workers Hold Sit-In at UMaine President's "State of the University" Address

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Following Child Care Workers' Strike, Committee Votes to Reject Child Care Cuts

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Announces Hiring Freeze, Workers Brace for Potential Mass Layoffs

Public Sector Retirees in Maine Receiving Retroactive Benefits Thanks to Social Security Fairness Act

Labor Committee Rejects Right to Work for Less on Party Lines

Building Trades Apprentices to Work on Local 14 Solidarity Center Saturday, March 15

Local 14 Solidarity Center Features Photos of Otis Mill Workers