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USW Local 27 members at the Woodland Pulp mill in Baileyville havevoted 92 percent to reject the company’s contract offer and to authorize a strike. The company has refused to budge on members’ demands for wage adjustments to reflect the increasing cost of living.

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The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is in a funding crisis.

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Strikes in New England before the Civil War were often somewhat playful and whimsical with brass marching bands and pageantry.

We send our condolences to the family of former United Food & Commercial Workers leader Steve A. Buzzell of Saco, who passed away on November 16. He was 82.