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Fourteen months ago, staff and adjunct faculty at Bates College in Lewiston cast their ballots in a union election to join the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU Local 1989).

Affiliates of the Maine State Building & Construction Trades Council have been reaching out to hundreds of immigrant workers who were laid off from the Abbott Labs COVID test manufacturing facility in Westbrook last month.

Ever since 150 residential and client services workers at Portland-based Shalom House filed to form a union with MSEA SEIU 1989 last month, management has been waging an anti-union campaign against the workers.

Last Friday, the Maine Service Employees Association (MSEA-SEIU 1989)

Orono residents are calling on the Orono Town Council to halt the town's efforts to undermine the effort of town staff to organize a union.