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In the past several weeks, award-winning actor and playwright

The Machinists Local S6 Women's Committee at Bath Iron Works contributed an impressive amount of hygiene products as part of its annual Hygiene Drive for Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The Women of Steel chapter from USW 900 at the Rumford mill had a very successful October. The USW women raised about $800 selling candy apples, whoopee pies and other treats at the River Valley Pumpkin Fest in Rumford on October 14. 
 

This week we are mourning the loss of women’s rights activist and state Rep. Lois Reckitt of South Portland, who passed away at the age 78.

As we wrote last week, two members of our union family, Brother Peyton Brewer Ross (IAMAW S6) and Steve Vozella (NALC 241) did not make it home to their families from Schemengee’s Bar & Grill on the night of October 25. Ross left behind a wife and a young daughter.

Americans are experiencing the greatest technological transformation of the modern era. Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing how we live, work and communicate.