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Last Friday, the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU 1989)

Orono residents are calling on the Orono Town Council to halt the town's efforts to undermine the effort of town staff to organize a union.

We are pleased to announce that Crystal Lancaster has joined the Maine AFL-CIO team as our new office manager! Crystal comes from four generations of Maine union members and has a solid background in the labor movement, organizational administration and drag racing!

U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) led a group of colleagues in introducing legislation that would ensure public sector workers and their families can receive full Social Security benefits after two previous statutes reduced them.

As any working class parent can tell you, finding and paying child care is a serious struggle. Many Mainers sign up to be put on waiting lists for child care as soon as they learn they become pregnant, only to continue to wait for months or even years after the child is born for a slot.

Women are now nearly 50% of the workforce—yet inequality in the workplace continues. Unequal pay, harassment and discrimination are just some of the abuses women face daily.

But when women stand together, they can demand equality. And a union contract delivers.