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Fifty-five years ago civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis where he was supporting striking sanitation workers. On Monday, January 16, Mainers will honor MLK’s legacy of fighting for racial and economic justice at events across the state.

IAFF members are celebrating passage of a provision in the new National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to protect fire fighters who protect our public lands and military installations. The measure was signed by President Joe Biden just before Christmas.

It was a little after noon on December 8 when ATU 714 member Chris Varian noticed there was something wrong at the back of his bus. Up to that point, it had been a typical day.

Members of United Steelworkers Local 27 at the Woodland Pulp mill in Baileyville voted overwhelmingly on December 19th and 20th to ratify a new three-year contract that includes higher-than-average wage increases, more vacation time and a signing bonus.

Maine Medical Center (MMC) nurses delivered lumps of coal to MMC President Jeff Saunders on December 21 following the hospital’s announcement a week earlier that it terminated nurses’ paid leave for bereavement, jury duty, and military service.

Our wonderful office manager Chris Greenleaf is planning to retire soon, so we are now taking applicants to fill her very large shoes.