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Right now, Congress is considering a reckless budget package that would make the 2017 tax giveaway to billionaires and giant corporations permanent, and expand the tax cuts for the rich by cutting $1.5 trillion from essential programs like Medicaid.

The Maine Legislature’s Labor Committee voted five to one in a bipartisan vote on Tuesday to finally apply the state minimum wage to farmworkers.

Seventy-four Democrats and two Republican members of the Maine House of Representatives voted to reject a union busting "right-to-work-for-less" bill on Wednesday. LD 187, "An Act to Prohibit Labor Organizations from Imposing Mandatory Service Fees on Nonmembers,” sponsored by Rep.

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PHOTO: VA employee Elizabeth Harkins, Tri-State President of AFGE 2604 speaks at a press conference Wednesday against cuts to the Veteran's Administration.