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We are pleased to announce that Crystal Lancaster has joined the Maine AFL-CIO team as our new office manager! Crystal comes from four generations of Maine union members and has a solid background in the labor movement, organizational administration and drag racing!

U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a group of colleagues in introducing legislation that would ensure public sector workers and their families can receive full Social Security benefits after two previous statutes reduced them.

As any working class parent can tell you, finding and paying child care is a serious struggle. Many Mainers sign up to be put on waiting lists for child care as soon as they learn they become pregnant, only to continue to wait for months or even years after the child is born for a slot.

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily.

But when women stand together, they can demand equality. And a union contract delivers.

Members of Machinists Local S6 at Bath Iron Works are preparing for another round of contract negotiations as their current contract ends in August 2023.

The Maine Building and Construction Trades Council and the Maine Labor Climate Council is sponsoring a Clean Energy Career Fair on March 16 from 4-7pm in Portland at Gateway Community Services, 501 Forest Avenue in Portland.