Worker Center

Join us online at WCEM: A Forum for the Worker's Center of Eastern Maine for discussions and notices of events!

Worker Center now open
for education and action

Nonunion workers finally have somewhere to turn for help with problems on the job, at the new Worker Center of Eastern Maine(WCEM).

Overtime that isn't paid, jobs lost for trying to unionize, missing paychecks--the WCEM is here to address all these assaults on working people.

The Worker Center will hold regular Open Hours every Tuesday from 12-8 p.m. and every Saturday from
9 a.m.-12 p.m. All EMLC members, Food AND Medicine members, and allies are invited to visit during these times, or to hold an event at the Worker Center.

Contact Martin Chartrand at 989-5850 or Jack McKay at 989-4141 if you have questions, or are interested in holding a presentation, workshop, or meeting.

For additional information:

Worker Center flyer (PDF file, 25 kb)

Worker Center article from the Solidarity News (PDF file, 70 kb)


  Worker Center
  in the news:

  • Labor council opens in Brewer
  • Celebrate Labor Day with worker center
  • Labor Day, 2007
  • Maine manufacturing jobs dwindling
  • McMurtry to play benefit concert in Bangor
  • McMurtry returns for a worker benefit

Worker Center Minutes
Click here to read the minutes from the Dec. 15 meeting (.doc file).

Why EMLC Unions Support a Worker Center

Delegates to the June 3, 2007 meeting of the Eastern Maine Labor Council gave the following reasons for throwing the support of their locals behind Food AND Medicine's Worker Center project.

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The right thing to do-- support for a project that improves the lives of other workers is a way of expressing solidarity and presents a good public image for the labor movement.

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Organize-- The Worker Center will provide opportunities to educate nonunion workers on the benefits of unions and recruit new members.

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Political Power-- Education at the Worker Center would also increase the political consciousness and activism of workers, leading to more support for labor-friendly candidates and policies.

--Workplace Standards-- By empowering nonunion workers to demand better working conditions and wages, the Worker Center will increase unions' bargaining power as well, since employers will no longer be able to cut costs by hiring nonunion.

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To contact us:

Food AND Medicine, 20 Ivers Street, Brewer, ME 04412
Phone: (207) 989-5860
Email: info@foodandmedicine.org