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Candidates Ed Book and Casey Willits won the District 2 and 3 City Commission races, respectively.

Some Maine voters in yesterdays midterm election rejected Portlands "Question D," which would have increased the citys minimum wage from $12.75 an hour to $18 an hour by 2025. Employers would also have no longer been allowed to pay tipped workers the sub-minimum wage of $6.38, with tips bringing them up to the current minimum wage. Joe Lazzerini, northeast campaign director with One Fair Wage Maine, said workers deserve better. ...

In Wisconsin and Washington, tabletop workers are unionizing at various companies: Mox Boarding House, Card Kingdom, and Noble Knight Games. It’s aligned with union trends in the United States, and in the game industry as a whole.

Democratic congressional candidate Josh Riley, who is running to represent New Yorks 19th district, spoke to Cornellians about his campaign in a Cornell Democrats town hall on Friday.

Carl Kennebrew, president of the IUE-CWA, an international labor organization, visited Pittsfield last week to learn more about union work happening at General Dynamics Mission Systems.

Election Day is busy at most news outlets, but some employees of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette are picketing today, still on strike for what they consider unfair labor practices of the newspapers parent company. Some workers have been off the job since Oct. 6; others since Oct. ...

Roughly 67 union and non-union workers will see a raise ranging from $1 to $5 for workers who were making the state minimum wage of $9.30 an hour.

Alphabet Inc, Google’s parent company, illegally cut off contract workers’ access to a spreadsheet about pay transparency, a union alleged in a complaint to the US National Labor Relations Board.

New Congressional District prepares to choose

In the race to represent Colorado’s Western Slope in Congress, contributions from outside the sprawling, mostly rural 3rd Congressional District, have powered incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert, while challenger Adam Frisch has relied heavily on his hometown of Aspen, as well as his personal wealth, to fund his campaign. But an acceleration in donations for the Democrat in the third quarter showed that he too can raise significant sums from outside the district.