Three New Staff Join the Maine Labor Climate Council

The Maine Labor Climate Council — a new organization formed by a coalition of unions to advance an ambitious pro-worker agenda to combat climate change and reverse economic inequality — has hired three staffers to advance their important work.

Francis Eanes has taken the reins as Executive Director for the Council. Francis first cut his teeth with organized labor as a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, when former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker stripped most public sector workers of collective bargaining rights in the spring of 2011. More recently, he spent the last five years teaching at Bates College, where he was deeply involved with Bates Educators & Staff Organization (BESO) campaign to form a wall-to-wall union for all adjunct faculty and staff. He also completed the Jane McAlevey’s 2021 Organizing for Power class with the Maine AFL-CIO's cohort

IBEW 1253 member Scott Cuddy of Winterport is the Climate Council’s new policy director. An electrician and member of IBEW 1253, Cuddy comes to the job with an impressive resume in labor and climate policy work. As a two-term member of the Maine House Representatives serving on the Labor and Housing Committee, Cuddy wrote and sponsored legislation that raises the standards for clean energy jobs and advances equity in the renewable energy sector.

Kristin Campbell is the new Organizing Director for Maine Labor Climate Council. Her commitment to labor and community organizing started on the picket line at New York University where she organized fellow undergraduates in solidarity with striking graduate workers. With a focus on building the power and unity of multi-racial working class communities, Kristin has designed leadership development programs, coordinated campaign research and strategy processes, directed outreach and field efforts, led grassroots fundraising drives, and offered strategic guidance to community organizations to increase their effectiveness and strength of purpose. 

Kristin received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University and is currently enrolled in the Executive Program in Social Impact Strategy at the University of Pennsylvania. She has completed Midwest Academy’s Organizing for Social Justice and Supervising Organizers trainings, was a student in Marshall Ganz’s Leadership, Organizing, and Action course at Harvard University’s Kennedy School, and has completed Organizing for Power with Jane McAlevey.

Welcome Francis, Scott and Kristin! We look forward to working together to create a clean energy economy supported by quality union jobs.