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This May Day, the secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO recounts the chilling effect the Haymarket Square massacre in Chicago had on union activism.

Chris Greenleaf, a longtime rapid response coordinator and office manager at the Maine AFL-CIO, officially retired last week after 45 years in the labor movement.

On Monday, a supermajority of MaineHealth interpreters announced their intention to form a union together with MSEA SEIU 1989 and filed for a union election with the National Labor Relations Board. In their announcement, the group stated:

Next week, the Legislature’s Labor and Housing Committee will hold three important public hearings on bills impacting union members and other workers.

Right to Work for Less Bills — Tuesday, May 2, 1pm

Too often employers force workers to attend anti-union meetings during work hours where they cajole, coerce, scare, intimidate and even threaten workers to prevent them from exercising their First Amendment rights to organize.

The University of Southern Maine's Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education is