News

We are pleased to welcome Sandra Engle, a retired UAW organizer and current Executive Director of the Asia Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), to her new home here in Maine.

Rail union leaders are asking South Portland City Councilors to consider passing an ordinance banning remote control locomotives from moving hazardous materials on tracks that connect with those carrying Amtrak passenger service.

Our thoughts are with the family of former Part-Time Faculty Association of Maine (AFT) President Sarah Patricia Benson, 82, who passed away peacefully, surrounded by loved ones on July 6.

The graduation ceremony for pre-apprentices who are taking the Union Construction Academy of Maine’s “Women in the Trades" session will be held on Thursday, August 15 from 5:30 to 7pm at the IBEW 1253 union hall, 142 Elm Street, Newport.

If you missed author Michael Zweig’s talk in April in Portland about his book

Maine’s Building and Construction Unions are celebrating the good union jobs that will be created with the construction of a proposed multi-day energy storage facility project at the former paper mill site in Lincoln, Maine.