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Last Friday, Carpenters Local 349 & 352 held their annual Tax Fraud Day demonstration at Thompson's Point in Portland. Gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson was there to show his support for the workers.

Last week, Governor Janet Mills signed a supplemental budget that will make childcare more affordable while ensuring the very wealthy pay their fair share. The new supplemental budget includes:

PHOTO: Union nurses protest the closure of Mount Desert Island Hospital’s (MDIH) obstetrics department in 2025.

On Monday former Senate President and Maine Gubernatorial Candidate Troy Jackson unveiled a new fair share tax plan for Maine that ensures the wealthy pay their fair share and makes key investments in child care, health care, housing and education.  
 

On April 15, Tax Day, the Mainers for Tax Fairness (MFTF) coalition raised awareness that America’s runaway wealth inequality is the predictable result of a tax system rigged to protect the ultra-wealthy while leaving working families behind.

Longtime union activist and retired Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA) member and staffer Robin Upton-Sukeforth of Litchfield is running the Maine Legislature in House District 56, which includes the towns of  Litchfield, Monmouth and Wales. Upton-Sukeforth will face incumbent Rep.