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Apprentices with IBEW 567, Laborers 327 members and possibly apprentices of Plumbers & Pipefitters 716 will be doing renovations on the Local 14 Solidarity Center in Jay on Saturday, March 15 starting at 8am.

Work on educational programming and the restoration of the Local 14 Union Hall is going strong, according to the Agitator, the Local 14 Solidarity Center newsletter.

(L-R) Calais nurses Kathy Day, Joyce Nixon, Cindy Whalen, Debbie Wheaton, Karen Thomas & Gloria Hollingdale celebrate their union election win on January 16, 1985. Courtesy Gloria Hollingdale.

On Monday night, probationary employees of the Veterans Administration’s Togus VA Medical Center in Chelsea were informed by email that they had been fired without any prior notice or due process.

Members of IBEW Local 1837 at WGME-TV (CBS 13) have been fighting for months for a fair contract, but the company’s parent company Sinclair Broadcast Group stubbornly refuses to give them living wages.

The Maine Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a citation to Northern Maine Medical Center (NMMC) for regulatory violations, including misclassifying nurses as subcontractors, failing to pay nurses overtime, failing to pay nurses their wages in a timely manner, and requiring nurses to sign contra