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The University of Southern Maine's hiring for a Community Outreach Coordinator for the Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education. The position will serve as the Center’s main relationship builder with union and community members and organizations and unions throughout Maine.

Union contracts for 150,000 International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America (UAW) members at the Big Three automakers expire at midnight on Thursday September 14.

A group of teachers and state employees who were dealt severe pension cuts over a decade ago will finally receive substantial increases in their monthly pension benefits thanks to the recent supplemental budget passed by the Maine Legislature and signed by Governor Janet Mills.

PHOTO:The Morgans, former Carleton Woolen mill employees, at an informational meeting on Sept 7.

State employees with the Maine Service Employees Association (SEIU 1989) picketed the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services Employee Appreciation Day lunchtime event in Augusta on Tuesday to call on the state to negotiate a fair contract.

The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM) has filed an Unfair Labor Charge (ULP) against Staples after management at a Brunswick, Maine retail store fired one of its employees, a strong union supporter, just ahead of the Labor Day weekend.