unions

After more than two years of negotiations, the University of Maine Graduate Workers Union has reached a tentative agreement with the university system for its first contract.

Faculty at Thomas College in Waterville voted yesterday to join the Maine Education Association, making it the first private college in Maine to unionize.

Nearly 50 employees of the statewide, non-profit Maine Trust for Local News voted Monday to join the News Guild of Maine, bringing the total number of workers in the union to more than 200.

Local unions rallied in Brewer today, the 41st stop in the AFL-CIO's "It's Better In a Union" national bus tour.

Workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to welcome nearly 50 additional members into their union.

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

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

The 35-member production crew wants to unionize to boost wages.

The nine workers accuse Milton Champion of engaging in retaliation and creating a toxic work environment.

Baristas at the Portland-based Coffee by Design signed a collective bargaining agreement with the company this week, formally recognizing the union. The front-of-house workers are represented by Local 327 of the Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA).