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Members of USW Local 27 will vote next Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 5th and 6th on whether to accept a contract offer by Woodland Pulp mill in Baileyville. The mill workers have been in tense negotiations with the company and are pushing for wage adjustments to reflect the increasing cost of living.

You are invited to join the A. Philip Randolph Institute Maine Chapter’s official launch on Saturday, December 3 at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 34 Gray St, Portland. APRI is a constituency group within the AFL-CIO for union members of color.

Biddeford Starbucks baristas joined workers at more than 110 Starbucks locations nationwide in the largest strike since the union drive at the company began last year.

Less than a month after Starbucks baristas in Portland

By the 1830s and 1840s, the labor movement had spread throughout the Northeast and Maine workers began taking direct action in the workplace.

Maine Department of Labor Commissioner, Laura Fortman, IBEW 1253 Apprenticeship Director, George Howe and pre-apprenticeship students from Nokomis Regional High spoke at a press conference Tuesday at IBEW 1253's Training Center in Newport to kick off National Apprenticeship Week.