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Bangor City Council Candidates
Address Labor Issues at Forum
Click here to read about the forum held on October 24.
Verizon meeting with state utility
regulators held September 20
There was techie talk of Internet speeds (in "k's" and "mig's") and high finance ("Reverse Morris Trusts" and depreciation), but in the end the dispute boiled down to this. >> more
Circuit City Action
In the best tradition of solidarity, Steelworkers joined Food AND Medicine members outside the Circuit City store in Bangor this spring to protest the firing of 3,400 Circuit City employees nationwide, four at the local outlet. >> more
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) Action
You may have complained about having to jump through hoops, but have you ever actually tried it? Food AND Medicine members and Steelworkers did, outside the Federal Building in Bangor this June, to demonstrate how hard it is to form a union these days. >> more
Stuart Acuff
AFL-CIO organizer Stuart Acuff gave a fiery oratory to a crowd at the 2006 4th July Solidarity Celebration, Eastern Maine Labor Council, Brewer, Maine. This 10-minute video is slightly edited to fit in YouTube. For a downloadable audio-only mp3 podcast of the full 12-minute Stuart Acuff speech, please visit peacecast.us here.
The EMMC Struggle on WERU
Click here to listen to WERU's Voices program from March 2006 on the EMMC workers' struggle. The program includes testimony by EMMC worker Mike Tripp at the Real Security Hearing.
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