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About 60 job seekers turned out for a Clean Energy Career Fair in Portland on March 16. The event was organized by members of the Maine Frontline Climate Formation, and sponsored by the Maine Building and Construction Trades Council, the Maine Labor Climate Council, and the Maine AFL-CIO.

The Maine AFL-CIO testified last week in opposition to bills that would weaken the child labor laws and the minimum wage.

Graduate workers at the University of Maine

 Chipotle Mexican Grill has agreed to pay $240,000 to former employees of its shuttered Augusta, Maine location as part of a settlement for illegally closing the restaurant in the middle of a union organizing drive on July 19, 2022.

Picture a manufacturing worker. Are you imagining a woman wielding a torch or assembling an SUV? 

The manufacturing sector provides good jobs with family-supporting wages and benefits, which do not require four-year degrees. More women should hold these jobs.

Longtime union leader Diane Winton is retiring as IBEW Local 2327’s Assistant Business Manager at the end of the month after four decades in the labor movement.