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Please Welcome the Maine AFL-CIO’s New Intern, Makala Greene

Please Welcome the Maine AFL-CIO’s New Intern, Makala Greene

University of Southern Maine student Makala Greene has joined the Maine AFL-CIO as our new student intern. Greene is an economics major and labor studies minor who will be starting her senior year in the fall. She grew up in Standish, but comes from a long line of midcoast lobstermen. 

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Building Trades Unions, Lobstering Union Testify in Support of Bill to Protect Fisheries & Raise Labor Standards for Offshore Wind

Building Trades Unions, Lobstering Union Testify in Support of Bill to Protect Fisheries & Raise Labor Standards for Offshore Wind

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Madawaska Paper Worker Lobbies Congress to Support Paper Industry

Madawaska Paper Worker Lobbies Congress to Support Paper Industry

Late last month USW Local 291 financial secretary Dave Hebert joined several paper union leaders from around the country in Washington DC to lobby Congress on key legislative issues to strengthen workers’ rights and support the paper industry.

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