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A bipartisan majority of the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee voted 7-1 on Wednesday to recommend passage of a bill that will put mental health workers in the same special retirement plan with fighters, law enforcement and corrections officers.

The Legislature's Labor and Housing Committee voted 8 to 3 to reject two Republican-backed “right to work” bills,

Jeffrey Daniels — a 20-year-old AFSCME Local 2011 member  who works for the Town of Norridgewock at the Town Garage — was recently diagnosed with leukemia and needs our support as medical and travel expenses continue to mount.

On Sunday, April 16, music teacher and Lisbon Education Association President Rick Beaulé received an alert through LinkedIn notifying him that a music teacher position had just opened in Lisbon – his job!

Last week, several union mental health workers from Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta, the Dorothea Dix Psychiatric Center in Bangor and the Office of Aging and Disability Services delivered powerful testimonies in support of a bill that would put them in the same retirement plan with fire

A broad coalition of union members, environmentalists, faith leaders and state lawmakers rallied on Tuesday in Augusta in support of legislation to ensure future offshore wind port facilities are required to have strong protections for workers and the environment.