Nearly 50 employees, including reporters, photographers and advertising staff, join the News Guild of Maine after holding an election with the National Labor Relations Board.
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Frances Perkins Center designation adds a new draw to Damariscotta region
The family homestead of the first woman Cabinet member became a national monument on Monday.
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Video game actors’ union calls for strike against League of Legends
The blockbuster online multiplayer game is caught in the middle of a dispute between Hollywood’s actors union and an audio company that provides voiceover services.
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Maine home of Frances Perkins, first female Cabinet member, seeks national monument designation
An architect of New Deal measures like Social Security and the 40-hour work week, Perkins returned throughout her life to a home in Newcastle that had been in her family since the 1750s.
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Union push pits the United Farm Workers against a major California agricultural business
A battle is underway in California between a unit of the Wonderful Co. and the country’s biggest farmworker union over how a group of workers organized under a recently enacted labor law.
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Graduate workers’ union bemoans pace of negotiations with UMaine System
Six months into bargaining, administrators and the union have reached tentative agreements on just two of 22 contract issues.
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Maine’s labor movement sees big shift from small unions
Although the total number of unionized workers in Maine is historically low, there is a trend afoot among workers who feel emboldened, and that could lead to more unionization efforts.
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New rule would make it easier for millions of American workers to unionize – but businesses are pushing back
Critics say the new rule is an overreach by the labor-friendly Biden administration that undermines independent business owners.
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Striking workers at Woodland Pulp qualify for unemployment
The Maine Bureau of Unemployment Compensation has awarded 80 striking workers at Woodland Pulp eligibility for unemployment benefits after the paper mill hired temporary workers to fill the empty positions.
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Hollywood studios break off strike talks with actors, who slam ‘bullying tactics’
The studios announced that they had suspended contract negotiations, saying the gap between the two sides was too great to make continuing worth it.