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Last Friday, Maine Public’s Maine Calling featured Ironworkers Local S7 apprentice Kloey Arsenault and pioneering union sister Dale McCormick as

PHOTO: Searsport mobile home park residents celebrate passage of rent stabilization ordinance last Saturday.

Jewish Mainers have a long, rich history in the state stretching back to colonial times. The first synagogue in the state was established in Bangor back in 1849 and waves of Jewish immigrants arrived to Maine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from Eastern Europe.

The Maine AFL-CIO Reading Group’s next selection is

PHOTO: Troy Jackson with Portland City Councilor April Fournier & Mayor Mark Dion.

PHOTO: Maine AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney speaks at the 2026 Maine Labor Lobby Day press conference at the Maine State House.