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The Legislature's Energy, Utilities, & Technology Committee will hold a public hearing on a bill to support thousands of union jobs in renewable energy while also protecting critical lobster fishing grounds from the impact of offshore wind on Thursday, May 18th at 1pm.

The Maine Labor Alliance invites social service and non-profit workers to a community forum in the Community Room in the lower level of the Rockland Public Library on Tuesday, May 16th from 5:30 - 7:30pm. Free food and childcare will be provided.

Baristas at the Little Dog coffee shop in Brunswick went on a one-day strike on Sunday to demand that the owner Larry Flaherty start negotiating in good faith. Local Brunswick legislators Sen. Mattie Daughtry (D-Cumberland) and Rep.

After organizing, rallying and a fighting for a fair contract, Ironworkers Local 807 voted resoundingly on Monday to ratify a new three-year contract with Cives Steel in Augusta that addresses workers' wage, health insurance and pension concerns as well as a number of other issues.

Union nurses at Northern Light AR Gould Hospital in Presque Isle delivered a May Day basket on Monday to AR Gould CEO Greg LaFrancois to demand movement at the bargaining table on issues involving safe staffing and staff retention in order to deliver patients the care our community deserves.