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It’s Natitional Women in Construction week where we highlight women in the building trades and raise awareness about the many opportunities women have to learn valuable skills while getting paid by enrolling in a registered union apprenticeship.

Maine Service Employees Association (SEIU 1989) member Tina Driscoll was devastated when she received a notice from the Maine Department of Health and Human Services in January that the call center where she worked in Wilton would be moved to Lewiston.

Machinists Local 447 members at Cummins, Inc. in Scarborough have been on strike since February 12th.  These striking workers need our help! They are on the picket line Monday - Friday from 7am – 3:30 pm at 10 Gibson Road in Scarborough.

Members of Preble Street United (Maine Service Employees Association - SEIU 1989) — a union representing 150 staff at Preble Street locations in Portland, Lewiston and Bangor — are calling on the organization to provide living wages, strengthen on-the-job training and address racism in the workpl

On a typical work day, Maine Service Employees Association member Bobbi Bard travels all over Maine checking in on people with some of the most severe, persistent cases of mental illness in the state.