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AFGE has reached an agreement with the Social Security Administration (SSA), allowing 42,000 SSA employees nationwide, including 70 employees in Maine, to enjoy new workplace rights and protections.

The Maine AFL-CIO Readers hope you’ll join us (by Zoom) on Thursday, August 24, 5:30-7 pm as they meet with Lane Windham to discuss Knocking on Labor’s Door, her book about labor organizing in the 1970s.

Members of the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU 1989) in several public sector workplaces have been negotiating pay raises and better benefits in recent contracts. Below are some of the highlights.

Worker strikes are at an all-time high. And CEOs continue to claim they can’t afford to pay workers a living wage.

Leaders of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters Local 340 are hailing