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IATSE Business Agent Doug Born was at the APRI kickoff dinner on Saturday evening when he received the kind of text he dreaded. One of IATSE 114’s camera operators couldn’t make it for the big Maine Mariners hockey tournament the next day.

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.