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Diverse Cohort of New Mainers & Women from Re-Entry Programs Graduate Union Construction Academy of Maine

Diverse Cohort of New Mainers & Women from Re-Entry Programs Graduate Union Construction Academy of Maine

Fifteen pre-apprentices graduated as the first cohort from the Union Construction Academy of Maine (UCA) at a ceremony on Thursday with their families at Gateway Community Services in Portland.

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Please Welcome the Maine AFL-CIO’s New Intern, Makala Greene

Please Welcome the Maine AFL-CIO’s New Intern, Makala Greene

University of Southern Maine student Makala Greene has joined the Maine AFL-CIO as our new student intern. Greene is an economics major and labor studies minor who will be starting her senior year in the fall. She grew up in Standish, but comes from a long line of midcoast lobstermen. 

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Building Trades Unions, Lobstering Union Testify in Support of Bill to Protect Fisheries & Raise Labor Standards for Offshore Wind

Building Trades Unions, Lobstering Union Testify in Support of Bill to Protect Fisheries & Raise Labor Standards for Offshore Wind

Last week, a

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