The 2023

In the summer of 2019, IAM Local S7 President Jessica Chubbuck-Goodwin received a message from a new Bath Iron Works employee who was in desperate situation.

Maine paper mills are increasingly forcing workers to work longer and longer and doing multiple shifts in a row to make up for a lack of staffing.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) passed 30 years ago and guaranteed 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to working families.

Photo: The Barajas family (IUEC): Pablo, Garrett, Miguel, Estevan & Juan Barajas.

When Ryan Iovino of Gray was a kid, he would often get strange looks when he said he wanted to be an elevator mechanic when he grew up.