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As work in the paper industry in Maine has declined over the past several years and decades, so have jobs for pipefitters with the UA Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 716.

The next meeting of the Labor Reading Group will be held on Zoom on Thursday, January 25  5:30-6:30.

IBEW Local 567 member Kilton Webb was in Washington D.C. last week to participate in a public round table discussion with other workers on building the nation’s clean energy future.

In our latest segment on the role of Maine workers in the war effort during World War II, we borrow liberally from the late labor historian Charlie Scontras’ book

Annie Valliere of Bath is a retired school therapist and labor folk singer who has sung all over Maine at union rallies, demonstrations and even at a Maine AFL-CIO Labor Summer Institute many years ago.

The national AFL-CIO and Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced the formation of a new partnership to create an open dialogue to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) must anticipate the needs of workers and include our voices in its development and implementation.