Labor Unions

While MSEA-SEIU Local 1989 leaders accuse the Mills administration of "bad-faith bargaining," a spokesperson for the state disputed the claims and pointed to repeated pay raises for state employees since 2019.

In a rare feat, more than half of the 435-member House signed onto Golden's "discharge petition" to force a vote — likely sometime in early-December — to rescind what the Maine Democrat describes as blatant "union busting."

Former CDC Director Susan Monarez was fired in August after than a month on the job. A White House spokesperson said Monarez wasn't "aligned" with President Donald Trump's agenda.

The Trump administration terminated the agreement for hundreds of thousands of unionized VA workers, including doctors, nurses and support staff at veterans' hospitals.

The bill by Golden and a Pennsylvania Republican would reverse a March executive order by President Trump that sought to eliminate collective bargaining rights for roughly 1 million federal workers.

It could become the first such union on the East Coast.

The agreement boosts wages at both ends of the pay scale for the district's 200-plus ed techs.

New data from the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services are the latest inflection point in a years-long dispute over state employee compensation and classification.

Citylink drivers voted last year to form a union.

Most of the cargo traffic in Maine comes through the Icelandic company Eimskip, which is not involved in the labor dispute.