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Food AND Medicine and the Eastern Maine Labor Council will be holding the 16th Annual Legislative Breakfast on Saturday 3/22/25 from 9 to 11 am at the Solidarity Center, 20 Ivers Street, Brewer

AUGUSTA — The Maine AFL-CIO condemns Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s decision to eliminate the union representing 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (PSO) with the Transportation Security Administration, roughly 140 of whom work at Maine’s airports. 

PHOTO: IATSE 114 members supporting WGME workers on Monday. Photo by David Hill

PHOTO: UMaine Grad Workers protesting on Thursday.

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

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.