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PHOTO: AFSCME members call on lawmakers to improve retirement benefits for mental health workers to boost staff recruitment and retention in 2023.

PHOTO: Postal Workers at a rally to protect mail delivery in Maine with Sen. Mike Tipping (D-Penobscot)

WASHINGTON — Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is pushing to force a House vote on eliminating the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and Government Pension Offset (GPO), which reduce Social Security benefits for millions of public employees, such as teachers and first responders.

VIDEO: Farmworker & his nephew recount brutal assault by boss on Vermont farm.

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Do you like to sing? The Maine AFL-CIO is forming a labor chorus! Our main goal is to have fun making music together! Work has long been a theme in music from sea chanties to African American spirituals about forced labor and how to escape it.