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PHOTO: ME AFL-CIO organizer Sarah Bigney McCabe with her son Sam speaks at a press conference about the challenges of finding child care.

Last Friday, Department of Transportation workers, fish hatchery workers, education representatives, insurance analysts, planning and research associates, building custodians, foresters and other Maine Service Employees Association (SEIU 1989) members traveled to Augusta to support a bill that wo

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!