The telecom company and unions reach a hard-fought tentative deal that would end more than four months of labor unrest. If it’s ratified this weekend, workers will be back on the job Wednesday.
Edward D. Murphy
Ed covers the City of Westbrook and business stories for the Portland Press Herald.
Posted inBusiness
GridSolar’s proposal for alternative-energy post rebuffed by staff of Maine PUC
The staff recommends instead that the PUC take bids for the role of coordinating Maine’s no-new-transmission efforts.
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Downeaster trains delayed by stuck freight train
The freight train got stuck in Wells when it pulled onto a siding that hadn’t been plowed.
Posted inA Word With the Boss, Business
Maine banker appointed to Boston Fed sees Big Picture
Peter Judkins, recently appointed to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is president and chief executive officer of Franklin Savings Bank.
Posted inLocal & State
Price of gas expected to begin slow climb
A federal energy agency has forecast the 2015 average cost at $2.33, down a dollar from 2014’s average price.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Mainers’ storm survival kit? Start with bread, milk and bottled water
And they can’t hunker down comfortably without a good supply of rock salt and batteries, either.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Layoffs by Shaw’s did discriminate, rights panel rules
It says the supermarket chain targeted older workers by limiting cuts to full-time employees.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
2015 will be best year of recovery, Maine business group told
But the rate at which Maine businesses add jobs will be only about half that of the U.S., an economist predicts.
Posted inBusiness
MaineWorks breaks down barriers for the hard-to-employ
Construction companies are among the beneficiaries of a firm that hires recently released inmates, immigrants and others who are ‘perpetually stuck.’
Posted inA Word With the Boss, Business
Equipment dealer happy to serve small farms
‘There’s a definite move back (to the land) and people are trying to be more self-sufficient and know where their food is coming from.’