Congrats to members of IBEW 1253 who stood strong together & fought for better wages & a new defined benefit pension in their new contract! maineaflcio.org/news/ibew-1253…

Congrats to the Maine Building and Construction Trades Council quickly for getting an agreement with the developer to use a project labor agreement (PLA) on the construction of what will be New England's largest long-duration energy facility! maineaflcio.org/news/unions-ap…

.Secretary Jennifer Granholm and the @Energy team reward Governor Janet Mills admin big grant $ for clean energy project that will be built under a PLA creating good union jobs! Time to up our game on the $456M OSW port grant – Maine’s biggest grant ever! mainepublic.org/climate/2024-0… #mepolitics

As we like to sing at the Maine AFL-CIO:

We had a really fascinating conversation with Sandra Engle, a recent Maine transplant & Executive Director of Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance, AFL-CIO about how to have organizing conversations with fellow union members about racism & xenophobia. maineaflcio.org/news/apala-exe…

Last week union leaders from the Maine Building & Construction Trades Council, Maine AFL-CIO, Longshoremen 861, & Maine Labor Climate Council met with Pete Buttigieg to discuss the importance of labor standards on DOT grants & projects in Maine. maineaflcio.org/news/union-lea…

“This law will finally put some teeth in our labor laws to hold corporate lawbreakers accountable and ensure working Mainers are paid fully for an honest day’s work,” Maine AFL-CIO vice president and Ironworkers Local 7 member Grant Provost said. apnews.com/article/lost-w…

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Through the #InflationReductionAct & #BipartisanInfrastructureLaw, GSA is investing over $300M into 8 buildings across #Maine. I visited IBEW Local 567 to celebrate GSA’s efforts with our union partners: Maine AFL-CIO, MSBCTC, IBEW 1253, & IBEW 2nd District.

Stage Hands Local 114 are celebrating their 120th Anniversary! Check out our story about the founders of Local 114 during the vaudeville era in 1905 & the rebirth of live stage events in Portland from the late 1970s to the present. maineaflcio.org/news/iatse-114… IATSE Local 114 IATSE // #IASolidarity

.Kamala Harris & Tim Walz will help us turn the corner to a new economic environment that will be conducive to earning good wages & solid benefits, pathways to retirement and protections on the job. x.com/MaineMorninSta…

Libertarians love forcing unions to allow freeloaders to get the benefits of being part of a union without paying for it.

Anti-labor Federalist Society goon Leonard Leo, who helped tilt the Supreme Court against workers, is now bankrolling efforts to kill offshore wind & the thousands of local union jobs it will support in Maine. bangordailynews.com/2024/09/06/pol…

Thank you Congressman Golden! People who have worked & paid into Social Security should not be denied benefits when they retire. x.com/RepGolden/stat…

Did your state legislators vote to support workers' rights, fair wages, safe workplaces & good union jobs? Find out in the 2024 Working Families Legislative Scorecard! Arriving in union mailboxes this week or online at scorecard.maineaflcio.org ! #mepolitics