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In 2020, Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 788 member Alana Schaeffer became the first woman  elected President of the Metal Trades Council, an association of a dozen unions representing 3,000 employees across ten trades at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

On September 21, we will join unions across the country that are driving a bold, pro-worker climate agenda at this year’s 

The Sanford Federation of Teachers (AFT Local 3711) recently hosted a First Book Program with help from the National AFT at Sanford elementary schools during teacher in-service days at the end of August.

AFT Maine members at the Narraguagus Bay Healthcare Facility in Milbridge and the Penobscot Valley Hospital in Lincoln negotiated raises in their new contracts this summer. 

The first time retired papermaker Linda Deane went out canvassing door-to-door she went with the late Dan Lawson, a labor champion and USW political organizer 

Restaurant worker and organizer Brandi McNease unleashed some fire in her Labor Day