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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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
November 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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! ⬇️⬇️⬇️
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
September 30, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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
Doris Poland of Windham (APWU) is voting NO on 1 because she has a son with disabilities who relies on absentee voting. #SaveAbsenteeVoting
September 29, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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
September 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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
September 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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
Bath, Augusta, Waterville, Auburn, York & Machias!
April 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Bath, Augusta, Waterville, Auburn, York & Machias!
This International Workers' Day Maine workers will holding be rallies in Portland, Orono, Bath, Augusta, Waterville, Auburn, Wayne, Bridgeton York and Machias! First up Portland! 🧵
April 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This International Workers' Day Maine workers will holding be rallies in Portland, Orono, Bath, Augusta, Waterville, Auburn, Wayne, Bridgeton York and Machias! First up Portland! 🧵
University of Maine Graduate Workers have been bargaining for over 500 days & still don't have a contract.
Please join us for a fair contract rally on the Orono campus to push UMaine to agree to a fair contract that meets the needs and bargaining goals of these union workers!
Please join us for a fair contract rally on the Orono campus to push UMaine to agree to a fair contract that meets the needs and bargaining goals of these union workers!
April 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
University of Maine Graduate Workers have been bargaining for over 500 days & still don't have a contract.
Please join us for a fair contract rally on the Orono campus to push UMaine to agree to a fair contract that meets the needs and bargaining goals of these union workers!
Please join us for a fair contract rally on the Orono campus to push UMaine to agree to a fair contract that meets the needs and bargaining goals of these union workers!
Bring Union Brother Kilmar home. An injury to one is an injury to all!
April 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Bring Union Brother Kilmar home. An injury to one is an injury to all!
We joined Mainers for Tax Fairness today to call on Congress to PROTECT vital programs like health care, veterans' services, social security and other programs that benefit working people and REJECT tax cuts for the rich!
April 15, 2025 at 8:22 PM
We joined Mainers for Tax Fairness today to call on Congress to PROTECT vital programs like health care, veterans' services, social security and other programs that benefit working people and REJECT tax cuts for the rich!
On this Tax Day 2025 we call on our leaders to STOP tax cuts for the rich & SUPPORT Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, USPS, the V.A. and other critical programs that working class people rely on! #taxday2025
April 15, 2025 at 6:27 PM
On this Tax Day 2025 we call on our leaders to STOP tax cuts for the rich & SUPPORT Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare, USPS, the V.A. and other critical programs that working class people rely on! #taxday2025
Solidarity with federal workers! #RedforFed!
April 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Solidarity with federal workers! #RedforFed!
Nurses and allies today marched into Senator Susan Collins' office in Portland to deliver a message loud & clear: Stand up for Maine People. Hands Off Medicaid! @nationalnurses.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Nurses and allies today marched into Senator Susan Collins' office in Portland to deliver a message loud & clear: Stand up for Maine People. Hands Off Medicaid! @nationalnurses.bsky.social
Union postal worker Jim Moore: "If you care about democracy, the Constitution, free speech, civil liberties & your rights as an individuals then it's time to get off the couch & get in the fight!" #savetheUSPS
March 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Union postal worker Jim Moore: "If you care about democracy, the Constitution, free speech, civil liberties & your rights as an individuals then it's time to get off the couch & get in the fight!" #savetheUSPS
Postal workers & allies protest attempts to privatize the USPS in Portland! #savetheUSPS ✊
March 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Postal workers & allies protest attempts to privatize the USPS in Portland! #savetheUSPS ✊
Great News!
“It’s a sad, sad day when our government would fire a good employee and say it’s based on performance when they know good and well that is based on a lie."
- Judge William Alsup
“It’s a sad, sad day when our government would fire a good employee and say it’s based on performance when they know good and well that is based on a lie."
- Judge William Alsup
March 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Great News!
“It’s a sad, sad day when our government would fire a good employee and say it’s based on performance when they know good and well that is based on a lie."
- Judge William Alsup
“It’s a sad, sad day when our government would fire a good employee and say it’s based on performance when they know good and well that is based on a lie."
- Judge William Alsup
Mothers, children & educators crowded the halls of the State House waving signs & singing songs to protest child care cuts. And it worked! Read more: maineaflcio.org/news/followi...
March 11, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Mothers, children & educators crowded the halls of the State House waving signs & singing songs to protest child care cuts. And it worked! Read more: maineaflcio.org/news/followi...
Here's how you can support WGME workers fighting for a #FairContract!
February 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Here's how you can support WGME workers fighting for a #FairContract!
It is just plain wrong to take food out of hungry children’s mouths and give it to some of the wealthiest people in the world who have already grown obscenely rich on the backs of working class Americans!
February 26, 2025 at 2:31 PM
It is just plain wrong to take food out of hungry children’s mouths and give it to some of the wealthiest people in the world who have already grown obscenely rich on the backs of working class Americans!
Maine Republicans have submitted right-to-freeload bills every legislative session since 1948. Not a single Maine worker testified in support of this bill. Time for these national corporate lobbyists to pack it in & go home!
February 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Maine Republicans have submitted right-to-freeload bills every legislative session since 1948. Not a single Maine worker testified in support of this bill. Time for these national corporate lobbyists to pack it in & go home!
Hey brothers & sisters! If you're in the area today stop by the Waterville Starbucks to show your solidarity for Starbucks baristas!
February 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Hey brothers & sisters! If you're in the area today stop by the Waterville Starbucks to show your solidarity for Starbucks baristas!
Labor writer Kim Kelly will be discussing her book "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" on Wednesday, February 12, 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 24 Gray Street in Portland, ME.
January 31, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Labor writer Kim Kelly will be discussing her book "Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor" on Wednesday, February 12, 6:00-7:30 p.m. at the Maine Irish Heritage Center, 24 Gray Street in Portland, ME.
The Local 14 Jay Solidarity Center is seeking volunteers to participate in its 40th Anniversary Strike Project to preserve history of the Jay Strike & engage more people in talking and thinking about it. Join them any Tuesday from 9:30am to noon at the Solidarity Center, 6 Intervale Rd., Jay, ME.
January 29, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The Local 14 Jay Solidarity Center is seeking volunteers to participate in its 40th Anniversary Strike Project to preserve history of the Jay Strike & engage more people in talking and thinking about it. Join them any Tuesday from 9:30am to noon at the Solidarity Center, 6 Intervale Rd., Jay, ME.