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PHOTO: MSEA Chapter 5 President Adam Jones speaking at Tuesday's Lewiston City Council meeting.

When political dysfunction in Washington shuts down the government -- or if State government gets shutdown during a budget standoff -- it's federal and state employees and their families who suffer.

PHOTO: Barney McClelland (IBEW) with James McClay (MSEA) dressed as St. Patrick at the Portland St. Patrick's Day parade.

In a major win for fishermen, the Maine Lobstering Union and other unions have successfully lobbied the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to exclude critical fishing grounds from the leasing of commercial offshore wind projects in its designation of a Fin

PHOTO: Left to right: Doris Poland (APWU), Rep. Matt Beck, ME AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney, Rep. Amy Roeder & Serina DeWolfe (AFT).

The Maine AFL-CIO Labor Reading Group will feature guest author Eric Blanc for its third and final session of his book Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave & Working Class Politics on Thursday, March 28, 5:30-7:00 pm on Zoom.