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Labor History: Organizing the South Portland Shipyards

PHOTO: IUMSWA Local 50 ad in the CIO newspaper the Yard Bird, which was circulated in the South Portland shipyards in the early 1940s.

27, Dec, 2023

Maine Cannabis Workers Unionize with Machinists District 4

This week, workers at the Upta Camp Edible Company and Golden Road Extracts in Bowdoinham signed authorization cards to be represented by the Machinists Union District Lodge 4.

27, Dec, 2023

NLRB Moves to Force Starbucks to Reopen Shuttered Unionized Store in Portland

On Wednesday, December 14, the National Labor Relations Board

15, Dec, 2023

Postal Union Members Fight Consolidation of Mail Distribution in Maine

PHOTO: APWU Maine leaders Selena Garside, (Gardiner), Jen Garland, (Scarborough), Scott Adams, (Scarborough), Meghan Zabloski, (Dover Foxcroft), Beth Hutchinson, (Sedgewick), Gary Underwood, (Peaks Island), David Glover, (Waterville).

15, Dec, 2023

Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 716 Return to Residential Plumbing & HVAC

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.

15, Dec, 2023

Labor Reading Group to Start Reading "Red State Revolt" — Thurs. Jan 25

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

15, Dec, 2023