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Governor Janet Mills announced on Thursday morning that she will sign the bipartisan budget agreement that will create a new statewide paid family and medical leave program in Maine.  Under the new program workers will receive up to 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave.

Below are some more pro-labor bills that have become law this legislative session. 

Improving Wages on State-Funded Construction Projects

The next session of the

United Food & Commercial Workers Local 1445 is hiring for an organizing position in Southern Maine. The union represents about 8,000 workers in grocery stores, food packing and processing centers, retail, health care, cannabis dispensaries, laundries and more.

The Brewer-based nonprofit Food AND Medicine is are seeking to add an experienced and versatile full-time Community Organizer to its expanding team to work on a number of programs including its collective gardens network, which currently includes 30 gardens.

Machinists District Lodge 4’s sixth annual charity golf tournament earlier this month raised $44,000