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Jul. 11—Legislation that aims to improve the wages and working conditions of farmworkers in Maine now awaits action by Gov. Janet Mills. Approved by the House and Senate last week, L.D. 398 ...
Jul. 25—The Maine Legislature has fallen short of overriding a bill Gov. Janet Mills vetoed last week that would have improved wages and working conditions for agricultural workers in Maine.
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The history of labor disputes in America substantially precedes the Revolutionary period. In 1636, for instance, there was a fishermen's strike on an island off the coast of Maine and in 1677 twelve carmen were fined for going on strike in New York City. [1]
In the Name of Humanity: Maine’s Crusade Against Child Labor (2000) Organized Labor in Maine: War, Reaction, Depression, and the Rise of the CIO 1914-1943 (2002) Time-Line of Selected Highlights of Maine Labor History: 1636-2003 (2003) Labor in Maine: Building the Arsenal of Democracy and Resisting Reaction at Home, 1939-1952 (2006) Unity in ...
The 2024 Measures of Growth report, released on Wednesday by the Maine Economic Growth Council and Maine Development Foundation, ranked the Pine Tree state's economic health based on factors ...
The Lewiston–Auburn shoe strike of 1937 occurred in the cities of Lewiston, Maine and Auburn, Maine among textile workers, most of whom were of French-Canadian descent. The workers walked off the job on March 25, 1937 demanding higher pay, a shorter workweek, better working conditions and union representation.
Laura A. Fortman (born 1954) [1] is an American government employee, non-profit executive, and women's rights activist. Since 2013 she has served as deputy administrator of the Wage and Hour Division at the United States Department of Labor in Washington, D.C. Previously she was commissioner of the Maine Department of Labor, and executive director of the Frances Perkins Center, the Maine Women ...