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The 16th annual May Day Dinner, organized by the Western Maine Labor Council, honors workers lost to workplace accidents and illnesses, and those who have lobbied to improve working conditions.

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Dolores Huerta, a Medal of Freedom winner, issued an open letter throwing her support to organizers angling for a union for many of the employees at Bates College.

An attempt to unionize by some employees of the Lewiston college has ratcheted up with an allegation that Bates has threatened workers for mounting the organizing campaign.

On Monday, the Bates Educators and Staff Organization, or BESO, filed an unfair labor practice charge against the school with the National Labor Relations Board.

The College says it hasn't seen the complaint yet so it can't comment on the allegations.

The union, the Bates Educators & Staff Organization, would be affiliated with the Maine Service Employees Association. Organizers say unionizing is an effort to improve working conditions and compensation and expand diversity efforts.  

The proposed new union, called the Bates Educators & Staff Organization, would include any staff who aren't campus safety officers, tenured or tenure-track faculty, or management.