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Amid heated negotiations, the Mills’ Administration’s Chief Negotiator Breena Bissell abruptly left a bargaining meeting with members of the Maine Service Employees Association on Tuesday after state workers began sharing stories about their financial struggles due to low wages.

This past weekend churches and synagogues across Maine featured guest labor speakers and included messages of solidarity, equity and racial and economic justice in sermons as part of the

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Last week the Democratic-controlled National Labor Relations Board issued a decision that will strengthen workers freedom to organize and strongly discourage employers from breaking the law.

USW 900's negotiating team in July. Courtesy of USW 900.

Thousands of Maine union members and retirees in the paper, trucking and construction industries -- including workers from Eastern Fine Paper, Carleton Woolen, Statler Tissue and Huhtamaki among others -- will receive their full pension benefits thanks to funding from the federal American Rescue