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If you're planning to head to the Common Ground Country Fair this weekend, stop by the Social Action Tent to visit the Maine AFL-CIO table. Union volunteers will be tabling, sharing information with fair goers about unions and the labor movement from Friday through Sunday at the fair.

Staff at the Sun Journal in Lewiston, the Times Record in Brunswick and weekly newspapers and newsletters throughout southern and western Maine have sent in theirs ballots to decide whether to form a union with the News Guild of Maine Local 31128 of the News Guild-Communications Workers of Americ

Labor author Eric Blanc will be giving two talks in Portland on Thursday, Sept. 25.

On Tuesday November 4, Mainers will vote on two major referendum questions, including an effort to restrict absentee voting.

The Scontras Center for Labor and Community Education is hosting a presentation with Jay Strike Mural artist Andrea Kantrowitz, former Jay paper mill strikers and activists at the Local 14 Solidarity Center on September 27 from 9am to 3pm.