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The Maine AFL-CIO Reading Group gathers regularly (via Zoom) for an hour each month to discuss a book (or articles) chosen by the members themselves. We’re a lively, welcoming, low-pressure bunch.

IBEW Locals 567 and 1253 are putting a record number of electrical apprentices to work in the field as Maine’s boom in solar power installations and construction continues. Currently, the two locals have a combined total of more than 200 apprentices working on various projects.

As long as workers have been forming unions in Maine, anti-labor politicians, judges and the business interests that support them have rigged the system against workers.

It’s a very sad fact that 

On Monday, workers at the Starbucks coffee shop on Middle Street in Portland