Last week, union members and friends across Maine enjoyed a Labor Day with great food and inspiring speeches at events in Portland, Winslow and Brewer, sponsored by the Southern Maine Labor Council, Central Maine Labor Council, Eastern Maine Labor Council and Food AND Medicine. 

Maine AFL-CIO Peer Workforce

Members of IBEW 2327 who work for the telephone and Internet provider Consolidated Communications have been busy building out a high-speed fiber optic network throughout the state this year.

In 2020, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 788 member Alana Schaeffer became the first woman  elected President of the Metal Trades Council, an association of a dozen unions representing 3,000 employees across ten trades at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

On September 21, we will join unions across the country that are driving a bold, pro-worker climate agenda at this year’s 

The Sanford Federation of Teachers (AFT Local 3711) recently hosted a First Book Program with help from the National AFT at Sanford elementary schools during teacher in-service days at the end of August.