Congratulations to Searsport mobile home residents and Maine Labor Climate Council for passing a new rent stabilization ordinance. On Saturday, Searsport residents voted 67-12 to pass an ordinance limiting rent increases at mobile home parks. maineaflcio.org/news/maine-l...
Labor Lobby Day 2026 was a great success!
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Proud to stand in solidarity with my union brothers and sisters at Labor Lobby Day in Augusta! A better world is possible when working people organize and take it. ✊🏼 Let's win this thing. @maineaflcio.bsky.social
Workers at Holy Donut in Portland are unionizing with the IAM Union! Please voluntarily recognize your employees’ union & negotiate a fair contract Holy Donut! 🍩 ✊
Solidarity with Bath Marine Draftsman's Association,
@uaw.org Local 3999! #FairContractNow
Gubernatorial candidate Troy Jackson is the ONLY candidate in the race to have signed the People’s Pledge, vowing to reject independent expenditures that come from corporate and dark money! barnraisingmedia.com/the-candidat...
When Jesse Jackson came to Maine in 1987 to support striking paper workers, he changed hearts & minds.
"Yesterday I wouldn't think of voting for a Black man for president," a woman striker said. "Tonight I gave him a check for his campaign." maineaflcio.org/news/maine-a...
After the first firefighter union in Maine dissolved in 1921, its officers either died or left the fire service due to struggles with PTSD. Their stories serve as a clear example of why they needed the rights and protections that a union could have provided.
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"We live in Maine. The idea is that we’re all neighbors and in it together. Immigrants are our union brothers & sisters. We all work side by side with these folks & we’ve come to know them & love them & all of a sudden they’re in fear of coming to work. That should have an effect on all of us."
Union Carpenter Derek Ellis of Skowhegan was down the street from his job site in Portland when he saw ICE agents shout at a woman to "get the hell out" of her car. As they tore her out of her car, she screamed "I'm a US citizen! I'm a citizen!" as her small child in a carseat cried hysterically.
I want to thank @maineaflcio.bsky.social and @aobrien2024.bsky.social for shining a much-needed light on the real stories that impact the working class of Maine.
"This is just an age-old tactic to pit workers against workers, divide the working class and deflect their attention away from the people who are robbing them blind: billionaires and corporations." app.publicnewsservice.org/story/me-uni...
The Maine Labor Climate Council & manufactured park residents held a rally last week to call on the Augusta City Council to pass a temporary rent moratorium and a rent stabilization ordinance to prevent massive lot rent increases.
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Maine Medical Center nurses overwhelmingly ratify three-year union contract! maineaflcio.org/news/maine-m...
Congratulations to NMMC nurses in Fort Kent who beat the union busters & voted to keep their union! WHEN WE FIGHT WE WIN!!! maineaflcio.org/news/norther...
I was honored to spend the afternoon at the Teamsters Local 340 hall alongside a packed house of my union brothers and sisters for the AFC wild-card game. Working people are the heartbeat of our state and campaign. Thank you, all! @maineaflcio.bsky.social
Another day, another picket! Brother Troy Jackson joins UMaine Graduate Workers UAW International Union to settle a fair contract!
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That would appear to be Graham Platner out with picketing/striking nurses at Houlton Regional Hospital.
WABI says nurses have been negotiating for a new contract for over a year. tinyurl.com/yc6n4vwh #MEpolitics
Tell Jeff Zewe to stop being a bully! actionnetwork.org/letters/jeff...
Nurses with the Maine State Nurses Association/NNU are striking for safe staffing, and improved patient care! Tell hospital CEO Jeff Zewe to stop union busting & bullying nurses! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
We had an awesome Biennial Convention last week! Here is a recap! maineaflcio.org/news/maine-a...
We're excited to announce that UAW President Shawn Fain will be the keynote speaker of the Maine AFL-CIO's Biennial Convention next week! maineaflcio.org/news/uaw-pre...
The 2025 Working Families Legislative Scorecard is online! Find out how your legislators voted on key labor issues like fair wages, collective bargaining rights, safe working conditions & more! scorecard.maineaflcio.org
Several union women from Maine joined the Tradeswomen Build Nations, the largest gathering of unionized tradeswomen in the world. maineaflcio.org/news/mainers...
Doris Poland of Windham (APWU) is voting NO on 1 because she has a son with disabilities who relies on absentee voting. #SaveAbsenteeVoting
Retired Bangor firefighter/paramedic Ronnie Green of the Professional Fire Fighters of Maine is voting NO on Question 1! #saveabsenteevoting
Firefighter/paramedics rely on absentee voting because they often work long shifts on Election Day and can't get out of work to vote. Question 1 on the November ballot would restrict our ability to vote absentee. VOTE NO ON 1! #SaveMaineAbsenteeVoting
We spoke with Utilities Workers of America Local B341 President Chris Richardson about the work his members do delivering natural gas to Southern Maine & upcoming contract negotiations with Unitil.
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Solidarity with nurses at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent! www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/nurses...
Brother Rodrigue Mbatchi fled political persecution in his home country & settled in Maine in 2023. After graduating from our Union Construction Academy of Maine he is now working as a Laborer with LIUNA Local 327! maineaflcio.org/news/union-c...
