Community Voices for Change: Farmworker policy in Maine

Click here to listen to the full episode, first aired September 23, 2024 on WMPG.

WMPG

Posted September 23, 2024

Mills administration agrees to give unionized state workers $2K payments

But another analysis, this one from the Maine Center for Economic Policy, contested that conclusion, noting that growth in private sector wages have outpaced growth for state public […]

Bangor Daily News

Posted September 5, 2024

Tags Budget, Unions, Wages

Jobs and Income

Farmworker Rights — An Explainer

Print Who are Maine’s farmworkers? The people who milk our cows, rake our blueberries, harvest our potatoes, and do the hard work to power Maine’s agricultural sector […]

Arthur Phillips

Posted August 29, 2024

Tags Explainer, Inequality, Job Quality, Jobs, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Racial Equity, Unions, Wages

Jobs and Income

Democracy Forum 3/15/24: Unions and Democracy Take Two

We’ll revisit topics from our show in 2021, talking about the historical and contemporary links between labor organizing and expanding political rights like voting. Is union organizing […]

WERU

Posted March 15, 2024

Tags Unions

Jobs and Income, Taxes and Budget

Maine state employees still face significant pay gap

Last week, the Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services released a report outlining the progress the administration has made on closing the pay gap between state […]

James Myall

Posted February 6, 2024

Tags Budget, Incomes, Job Quality, Unions, Wages

Taxes and Budget

Hollywood strike highlights unfairness of film tax subsidies

As the Hollywood actors strike continues, it’s a stark reminder that all workers are essential, and no industry can operate without them. The Screen Actors Guild and […]

Maura Pillsbury

Posted October 3, 2023

Tags Corporate Power, Economy, Employment, Job Quality, Tax Breaks, Unions, Wages

Jobs and Income

Amazon union leader Chris Smalls brings lessons from labor fights to Maine

At a forum Wednesday night at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Smalls, a former Amazon worker who now serves as the president of the ALU, […]

Maine Morning Star

Posted September 21, 2023

Tags Unions

Jobs and Income

Maine Center for Economic Policy hosts talk in Portland to stress importance of unions

The Maine Center for Economic Policy hosted a talk in Portland Wednesday about worker empowerment and the importance of labor organizers. The presentation Wednesday night featured Chris […]

WGME

Posted September 20, 2023

Tags Unions

Jobs and Income

Maine strikes contract agreement with some state employees amid rising labor unrest nationwide

Across the state, the number of unionized workers has been decreasing. In 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 9.2 percent of Maine workers were […]

WGME

Posted September 20, 2023

Tags Job Quality, Jobs, Unions

Jobs and Income

Union organizing is way up — but it’s not rising as fast as non-union job creation

A new report by the Maine Center for Economic Policy (MECEP) about the state of labor organizing in Maine and around the country argues that both state and federal […]

Beacon

Posted September 18, 2023

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Community Voices for Change: Farmworker policy in Maine

Mills administration agrees to give unionized state workers $2K payments

Farmworker Rights — An Explainer

Democracy Forum 3/15/24: Unions and Democracy Take Two

Maine state employees still face significant pay gap

Hollywood strike highlights unfairness of film tax subsidies

Amazon union leader Chris Smalls brings lessons from labor fights to Maine

Maine Center for Economic Policy hosts talk in Portland to stress importance of unions

Maine strikes contract agreement with some state employees amid rising labor unrest nationwide

Union organizing is way up — but it’s not rising as fast as non-union job creation