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Last week the Maine AFL-CIO's Union Construction Academy held our first virtual session of our new English for Construction training program.

IBEW Local 1837 members at Black Bear Hydro have unanimously ratified a five-year contract, which includes a $5,000 signing bonus, increased wages, and other enhanced benefits.

Join us for the inaugural “Conversations at the Scontras Center” with a talk by teaching fellow Kevin Van Meter titled “Of Pirates, Witches, & Workers: 500-Years of Labor History” at the University of Southern Maine in Portland on Thursday November 30, 6pm in Talbot Lecture Hall.

Beginning on Tuesday, November 21, the Charles A. Scontras Center for Labor and Communication Education is offering a series of online open enrollment workshops designed to develop your organizing skills, strengthen your union or workers’ organization and build a strong union culture on the job.

PHOTO: BIW shipyard workers sweat as they shape steel beams with sledge hammers for a Liberty Ship at the South Portland Shipyard. May 15, 1944. Maine Maritime Museum.

In the past several weeks, award-winning actor and playwright