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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. 

About 70 members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local S6 from Bath Iron Works attended the Young Machinists Committee's Solidarity Disc Golf tournament at Acker’s Acres Disc Golf in Bowdoinham on July 25. Rep.

For more than 25 years, the Women’s Committee of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAMAW) Local S6 has been providing a voice for union women, raising money to help vulnerable people in the community and building power in their union.