National Labor Relations Board must decide who is eligible to unionize.
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Photos: Catching air in Lewiston
Bates College students fly over a rail at base of the campus’ mountain.
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Bates College tells students they must wear high-quality masks
As Bates College shifts back to in-person classes, it mandates mask upgrades to help thwart COVID-19.
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Organizers, panelists urge attendees to be impatient during Bates MLK keynote panel
In a break from previous years, the organizing committee for Martin Luther King Sr. Day chose to invite not one, but five Maine-based activists to speak to this year’s theme, Decolonization and Liberation.
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Lewiston’s best restaurant refused to serve Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘spiritual mentor’
Fearing a racist response from other diners in 1945, the DeWitt Hotel refused to allow Benjamin Mays, a prominent Bates College graduate who had come to speak in the city, to eat in its public dining room.
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Bates College hosting annual MLK community observance
The theme is Decolonization and Liberation and the event opens with a keynote panel of Maine-based thinkers, practitioners and activists.
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Union argues Bates blew its chance to make its legal case by missing a deadline
As Bates College workers vote on whether to form a union, a federal agency is sorting through arguments about who should be eligible to join it if employees back the proposal.
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Colby College sees surge in COVID-19 cases as students return to campus
College reports 106 cases at its Waterville campus, including 90 students.
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Bates and union organizers clash as workers prepare to vote on whether to form one of state’s biggest union locals
Bates denounces union complaints as ‘the very essence of misinformation’ after organizers say college is violating its own COVID-19 protocols.
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Bates College appeals federal agency’s ruling on union election
College seeks to keep faculty separate from other staff in any proposed union.