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Students from Nokomis Regional High School are getting an introduction to the construction trades and are learning the skills needed to apply for apprenticeships in a new year-long, comprehensive pre-apprenticeship / Apprenticeship Readiness Program at IBEW Local 1253's Training Center in Newport

Labor history is critically important to our understanding of the struggles and sacrifices of past workers and to learn from them. Unfortunately, too often this history is lost over the generations as workers pass on. 

As anyone schooled in labor history knows, workers' rights, protections and benefits didn’t just fall from the sky or come over on the Mayflower.

Retired Maine Service Employees Association member (MSEA-SEIU 1989) Steve Keaten always looks forward to knocking on doors and discussing the upcoming elections with union members.

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Maine’s minimum wage will increase to $13.80 to keep up with the cost of living on January 1, thanks to a voter approved referendum passed in 2016. The adjustment will boost wages for up to 147,000 working Mainers, according to the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP).