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This past Tuesday, March 12, was Equal Pay Day—the

PHOTO: Members of Maine State Nurses Association, UMaine Graduate Workers Union-UAW, Machinists S-7, Ironworkers 7 & Maine Service Employees Association meet with Senate Majority Leader Eloise Vitelli & Assistant Senate Majority Leader Mattie Daughtry.

PHOTO: Bro Beck and union volunteers.

On Wednesday, 82 percent of Bowdoin College’s student residential staff submitted a petition to President Safa Zaki to announce their formation of a union with

PHOTO: UA 716 apprentices & trainers with Maine Labor Climate Council organizer Joe Hupperich getting ready to canvass in Searsport last Saturday.

The Maine House of Representatives voted 85-55 this week to pass a bill that would expand the public sector majority sign up union election bill to include state workers, judicial employees and university, academy and community college employees.