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Last week, workers at the Starbucks on Alfred Street in Biddeford successfully unionized the first Starbucks in Maine. The baristas voted 9-3 to unionize the store, bringing the number of unionized Starbucks locations to nearly 200 across the country.

The Maine Labor Group on Health has received OSHA funding to provide FREE occupational safety and health training classes to workers and employers. These one to two-hour, union member to union member sessions can be stand alone or linked together to form a more substantial class.

The Maine Labor Cl

Our Peer Workforce Navigator Leslie Torkelson has been working hard to set up our new Peer Workforce Navigator program to help workers connect to good union jobs, job training and apprenticeships as well as housing, childcare, unemployment benefits and other supports to help people get into and s

Local 327 of the Laborers' International Union of North America is currently seeking Construction Laborers for immediate work across southern Maine for jobs such as: concrete, road work, flagging and all aspects of building construction.