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PublishedDecember 16, 2024
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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PublishedSeptember 25, 2024
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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PublishedAugust 8, 2024
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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PublishedAugust 1, 2024
Amazon cracks down on Teamsters’ union efforts, labor leaders detained
Video footage from a protest near an Amazon warehouse in New York shows the New York City Police Department rounding up and handcuffing union leaders.
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PublishedMay 9, 2024
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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PublishedMay 3, 2024
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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PublishedApril 28, 2024
UAW wins big at Volkswagen in Tennessee
Despite making similar efforts for decades, the UAW union had never before managed to organize employees of foreign-based automakers in a Southern state like Tennessee.
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PublishedApril 28, 2024
Supreme Court appears open to Starbucks’ claims in labor-organizing case
The case stems from a complaint filed after seven baristas who were attempting to organize a union at a Starbucks shop in Memphis, Tenn., were fired.
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PublishedApril 28, 2024
1 in 10 US workers belong to unions — a share that’s stabilized after a steep decline
Because the economy gained 3 million jobs in 2023, unions had to draw hundreds of thousands of new members just to hold their ground.
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PublishedApril 25, 2024
What you need to know about new overtime rule that will benefit millions
Beginning July 1, salaried workers making up to $43,888 a year will qualify for 1.5 times pay if they work more than 40 hours a week. That’s up from the current ceiling of $35,568 a year.
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