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UMaine Graduate Workers Union to host rally amidst contract negotiation with administrative bargaining team 2024-03-23 [The Maine Campus]

Child care workers to see pay increases 2024-01-07 [News Ctr ME]

Woodland Pulp, union workers reach tentative agreement to end strike 2023-11-24 [WABI]

Woodland Pulp union workers to begin strike this weekend 2023-10-15 [News Centre]

SEIU Maine Service Employees Association, Local 1989 holds demonstration for improved wages 2023-09-04 [Centralmaine]

Navy shipbuilders' union approves 3-year labor pact at Bath Iron Works 2023-08-21 [AP]

Union workers at Westbrook paper mill agree to contract that includes raises, bonuses 2023-07-23 [News Ctr ME]

Gov. Janet Mills signs bill to protect workers from retaliation 2023-07-18 [ME Senate]

Maine Teamsters Celebrate Worker Free Speech Legislation 2023-07-14 [Teamsters]

Striking Brunswick coffee shop workers dig in 2023-06-16 [Press Herald]

State House Kills “Right to Work” Legislation Prohibiting Employment Conditional on Payment of Union Dues 2023-06-10 [Maine Wire]

Maine adjunct professors join push for wage increases 2023-05-28 [The Press-Herald]

UMaine officials considering voluntary recognition of grad students’ union 2023-05-15 [The Beacon]

Brunswick coffee shop employees strike after forming union 2023-05-09 [The Times Record]

University of Maine graduate student workers push to form union For more info 2023-03-29 [NBC]

'We need somebody to help us': Portland postal workers rally for safer working conditions 2022-12-19 [WGME]

Maine Med nurses vote overwhelmingly to ratify first union contract 2022-09-23 [National Nurses United]

Maine med nurses reach final agreement on historic first union contract 2022-09-16 [National Nurses United]

Maine stores could see more union efforts thanks to its small size 2022-08-10 [Bangor Daily News]

Waterville KVCAP drivers vote to unionize, saying they're ‘woefully underpaid and undervalued' 2020-10-23 [Central ME]

‘Join us in this effort': Machinists Union calls on Trump to help BIW workers in strike efforts 2020-07-05 [News Ctr ME]

Maine unions support ‘Medicare for All' 2020-03-01 [Press Herald]

Take it from the Maine AFL-CIO: Paul LePage Is A Threat To Maine's Workers 2022-07-01 [ME Dems]

Raft of workers' comp reforms raises alarms 2019-04-21 [Press Herald]

Compromise bill to boost workers' comp benefits for some becomes law 2019-06-19 [Press Herald]

Scarborough teachers' contract dispute gets national visibility via Bernie Sanders tweet 2020-01-02 [Press Herald]

BIW workers are pushed to settle, but no one's making demands of General Dynamics 2020-08-04 [Press Herald]

Maine Voices: Restaurant series doesn't represent Portland food workers' perspective 2021-05-29 [Portland Press Herald]

The tables have turned and it's a workers' market 2021-06-27 [Press Herald]

Chipotle closes a store in Maine, and workers claim its retribution for a unionization drive 2022-07-21 [New York Times]

Hospital workers say they experience assault, threats of violence nearly every day 2022-07-10 [Sun Jrnl]

Biddeford workers say their push to unionize comes from love of their jobs 2022-05-31 [Yahoo]

Houlton regional hospital nurses ratify new contract with strong measures to improve patient safety and nurse retention 2022-04-08 [National Nurses United]

Labor unions form new group to combat climate change in Maine 2022-03-02 [MPR]

Maine med-emergency room nurses speak out on workplace violence, demand greater protections from Maine medical centre 2022-02-24 [National Nurses United]

Skowhegan paper mill workers rally for better wages, benefits 2022-02-26 [Maine Public]

Bill would make more than 30,000 salaried workers in Maine eligible for overtime 2022-01-28 [Press Herald]

Portland workers rally to keep hazard pay ahead of pivotal council vote 2022-01-03 [Portland Press Herald]

Portland Museum of Art, union ink first labor contract 2021-11-25 [Maine Biz]

Supreme Court rejects Maine health care workers' effort to block COVID-19 vaccine mandate 2021-10-31 [CBS]

Labor Day marks end of pandemic unemployment benefits, impacting thousands of Mainers 2021-09-07 [WGME]

Nurses urge Maine Medical Centreto maintain covid protections for caregivers 2021-09-05 [National Nurses United]

Opinion: Public Utility Campaigns Have A Labor Problem 2021-07-28 [Strikewave]

Abbott Labs will lay off more than 300 workers in southern Maine 2021-07-09 [ME Biz]

Farm labor contractor pays $56K in penalties for violating migrant worker, immigration laws after a vehicle accident that injured 14 workers in Maine 2021-07-08 [US DOL]

With Workers In Short Supply, Seniors Often Wait Months For Home Health Care 2021-06-30 [Blue Ridge PR]

It's official-Maine State Nurses Association/NNU certified as union for RN's at Maine Medical Centre 2021-05-10 [National Nurses United]

By huge 57% margin, RN's at Maine's largest hospital vote to form first ever union with Maine State Nurse's Association/NNU 2021-05-02 [National Nurses United]

Maine elected leaders requested Northern Light drop its concessionary labor contract demands of nurses 2021-03-25 [National Nurses United]

Portland Whole Foods workers oppose Chamber lawsuit seeking to halt hazard pay as approved by voters 2021-01-12 [News Ctr ME]

This month in labour history

This month in labour history

3-04-1968 In a church in Memphis, Tennessee, 10,000 citizens gather to hear what will be the last speech by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He will stress the similarities between the labour movement and that of civil rights. [more]

8-04-1911 An explosion at the Banner coal mine near Birmingham, Alabama, kills 128 prisoners rented to the company as miners, under a contract with the prison administration. [more]

10-04-1930 Dolores Huerta, Mexican-American labour leader, is born. [more]

11-04-1934 Frank Norman is murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for organising citrus workers irrespective of their race. [more]

11-04-1974 United Mine Workers President W. A. “Tony” Boyle is found guilty of first-degree murder, for ordering the 1969 assassination of union reformer Joseph A. “Jock” Yablonski. Yablonski, his wife and daughter were murdered on December 30, 1969. [more]

14-04-1939 'The Grapes of Wrath', John Steinbeck's classic novel about itinerant labor, strikes and the Great Depression, is published. [more]

15-04-1889 Birth of labour and civil rights leader A. Phillip Randolph [more]

15-04-1916 The newspaper of the Industrial Workers of the World union announced the formation of its Domestic Workers Union in Denver. [more]

15-04-1973 housands of members of the United Farm Workers union walked out on strike. They were battling the Teamsters union over the right to represent farm workers. The dispute ended with victory for the UFW. [more]

16-04-1970 A white foreman at a Chrysler plant in Detroit threatened to murder a black worker. When the worker complained Chrysler sacked him. 1,000 workers, white and black, walked out on strike in protest until management backed down. [more]

17-04-1944 Members of the militant machinists' union Lodge 68 in San Francisco began an overtime ban in pursuance of a new contract. They ended up fighting the employer, the government and even the Communist Party. [more]

18-04-1941 After 4 weeks of a boycott, New York bus companies agree to hire 200 black drivers and mechanics [more]

21-04-1967 New York Governor Rockefeller signs the Taylor Law, allowing unions in the public sector, but banning strikes. [more]

21-04-1920 The Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing. [more]

21-04-1894 A nationwide strike of coal miners against pay cuts began. 145,000 miners walked out, and despite violent repression and facing starvation they held out for weeks and won some concessions. [more]

24-04-1999 The ILWU halts shipping on the West Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal. [more]