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The Maine Legislature's Appropriations Committee voted on Friday to recommend funding to establish a new Labor and Community Education Center at the University of Southern Maine.

Suzy Young of Winterport was recently hired by Food AND Medicine in Brewer to be the first Peer Workforce Navigator to help Maine workers access good jobs, apprenticeship and training programs, unemployment benefits, and other supports.

Last week, 25-year old Oliver Bianchi started his first term as the new President of the Hampden Professional Firefighters (IAFF 4903). Bianchi, who grew up in Rockport, comes from a union family.

This past Monday (Tax Day), members of the Maine Service Employees Association SEIU 1989 joined workers throughout New England to demand corporations pay what they owe for public services in our communities and stop shifting tax responsibilities onto working families and retirees.

IBEW Local 1837 members at the electric utility serving a large swath of northern and eastern Maine have approved a two-year contract extension offer with pay increases for all classifications and no change in their health insurance premiums or other benefits for the term of the extension.

The Maine AFL-CIO has been busy this week as the State Legislature moves to the end of its session. Here's a quick run down on where things stand on key labor priorities.