Maine Public People demonstrate for the PRO Act and other labor protections during a May Day rally in Portland on May 1, 2021.
Workers turned out for a series of rallies in Bangor, Augusta and Portland Saturday to celebrate May Day, also known as International Workers Day, and to urge passage of worker-friendly legislation such as the PRO Act, considered by supporters to be one of the most important labor bills in decades.
Mary Kate O Sullivan is a registered nurse at Maine Medical Center where nurses voted to organize this week. She spoke to a crowd gathered on the steps of Portland City Hall.
Updated: 10:42 PM EDT May 1, 2021 Rallies for workersâ rights were held in Portland, Augusta and Bangor Saturday, in recognition of May Day, also known as International Workers Day. Organizers say the past year has been difficult but workers are supporting each other.Demonstrators pointed to recent successful efforts to unionize both at Maine Medical Center and the Portland Museum of Art.Aaron Berger, Agenda Co-Chair for Maine DSA, said the event had two focuses: celebrating accomplishments but looking ahead toward future challenges. It s been both heartening and frightening at the same time. People have realized how precarious employment is in this country while at the same time workers have come together to really support each other and see each other through to the other side,â Berger said. Berger said demonstrators want to thank Senator Angus King and Representatives Chellie Pingree and Jared Golder for their support of the PRO Act. Supporters of the Protect
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Nurses at Maine Medical Center have voted to unionize, after a sometimes heated election concluded this week and after two failed attempts since 2000.
Ballots were counted Thursday night and tallied 1,001 to 750 in favor of representation by the Maine State Nurses Association and National Nurses United, according to the National Labor Relations Board. Nurses at the Maine Med campus on Portland s Western Promenade, the Brighton campus and the Scarborough Surgery Center will all be represented.
The mail-in election began March 29 and asked nearly 2,000 registered nurses employed by Maine Med to accept or reject collective bargaining representation. The deadline for ballots was Tuesday.
At the deCordova, new leadership marks a new chapter in Trustees merger
By Vivian Myron Globe correspondent,Updated April 29, 2021, 12:00 p.m.
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Jessica May at the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum on Tuesday. In a brand-new role, she will lead art and exhibitions at the museum and all other Trustees properties.Suzanne Kreiter/Globe Staff
Starting a job is always difficult, but beginning at a newly conceptualized position that no one has ever held before in the midst of a pandemic is on another level entirely.
âI have admired this program because [of] the way the Trustees have so brilliantly folded together multiple historic and contemporary arts programs,â said May, 43, in a recent Zoom call. âTo me, thereâs both the practical kind of innovation of the Trusteesâ model, but thereâs also this other side of this broader kind of conservation and care ethic.â