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Last Saturday, the Western Maine Labor Council held its annual Workers' Memorial Day/May Day Dinner to commemorate the Mainers who died from workplace injuries and illnesses over the past year. The winners of this year’s awards included:

This past week, union members across the state have been very active, from supportingIronworkers 807 in their fight for a fair contract with Cives Steel to celebrating International Workers Day with the UMaine Graduate Workers in Orono and Little Dog Workers in Brunswick.

Members of the Bangor Daily News Union (News Guild - CWA 31128) celebrated the first anniversary of forming their union this past weekend with an evening of bowling.

Union news workers are vetting a proposed purchase of Maine media mogul Reade Brower's newspapers as he considers an offer from the

This May Day, the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO recounts the chilling effect the Haymarket Square massacre in Chicago had on union activism.