Members of state worker’s union rally for livable wage ahead of contract renewal
Those who did not attend the Sunday rally had to work a second job to pay their bills, according to the speakers at the event.
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Maine Service Employees Association member Jonathan French addresses fellow state employees Sunday on the steps of the Statehouse during a rally in Augusta.
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AUGUSTA “Thank you’s are nice, but they don’t pay the bills,” said Dean Staffieri, president of the Maine Service Employees Association.
He was just one of dozens of participants who gathered under the hot afternoon sun in front of the Augusta Statehouse on Sunday, and one of the few speakers who addressed the crowed on their reasons for attending the event. Many state workers showed up in protest of the “low wages,” citing personal experience of having to choose between paying rent or paying their car bill in order to get to work.
An informational audio interview series from the Maine BMV Behind the Wheel is an audio interview series produced by The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles, hosted by Chief Driver License Examiner Larry Boivin and featuring BMV employees discussing motor vehicle topics.
Behind the Wheel: Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month, May 2021, Part I
This episode is Part 1 of a series on motorcycle safety, featuring BMV Motorcycle Safety Program Coordinator John Kohler. In Part One, Kohler discusses how he got into motorcycling, his work for the bureau, and the required coursework to earn a motorcycle endorsement in Maine.
Tide fan frenzy, valentine volunteers, ventilator theft: News from around our 50 states From USA TODAY Network and wire reports, USA TODAY
Alabama
Tuscaloosa: Thousands of excited football fans partied in streets around the University of Alabama after the Crimson Tide defeated Ohio State for the national championship, ignoring pleas for common sense and safety at the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Students and others poured out of jam-packed bars near campus as time expired in Miami late Monday, gathering on University Boulevard in an area called “The Strip,” traffic cameras and images posted on social media show. Many of the fans screaming and cheering as they pressed against each other in the street didn’t wear face masks. The scene was exactly what officials feared before the game as they urged people to watch at home and celebrate privately. More than 5,300 people have died in Alabama from the illness caused by the coronavirus, and about 404,000 hav
Maine BMV Fully Reopen, Mainers Must Renew Registrations/Licenses
I will be the first person to admit that I have been completely confused for the last nine months or so on what exactly I am supposed to do. Depending on who I would ask you did need to have your vehicles and campers registered while other would tell me no. Common logic says that I should have just googled it or gone to a news source- well, I did. And frequently I would end up more confused than I had even started out.
Recently changes had been made to the registration and renewal deadlines based on when you purchased your car and when the registration was set to expire. I ll be honest, I ve been driving my truck unregistered since September. As it turns out, I need to get it taken care of- and now.