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Maine Medical, where the nurses support unionization, is the state's largest hospital. PORTLAND, Maine —By a 1,001-750 margin, registered nurses at Maine’s biggest hospital complex voted to unionize with National Nurses United. The win, NNU’s largest victory in the Northeast in years, follows NNU’s big win last year at the largest hospital complex in Western North Carolina, in Ashville. That hospital employs 1,600 RNs. Some 2,000 work at Maine Medical Center in Portland and satellite complexes. NNU said hospital management “chose not to challenge results,” but the Bangor Daily N...

Maine Medical, where the nurses support unionization, is the state's largest hospital. PORTLAND, Maine —By a 1,001-750 margin, registered nurses at Maine’s biggest hospital complex voted to unionize with National Nurses United. The win, NNU’s largest victory in the Northeast in years, follows NNU’s big win last year at the largest hospital complex in Western North Carolina, in Ashville. That hospital employs 1,600 RNs. Some 2,000 work at Maine Medical Center in Portland and satellite complexes. NNU said hospital management “chose not to challenge results,” but the Bangor Daily N...

Members of the Imperial Irrigation District board of directors are pitted against one another in a months-long battle that has spilled from public meetings to controversial closed-door sessions and now into a courtroom. At stake is an agreement with organized labor that will determine who gets tens of millions of dollars of IID business. Only days before a new board was seated in December 2020 — and after major campaign contributions by unions failed to gain support for their preferred candidates — IID's outgoing board quickly pushed through a project labor agreement, or PLA. This gro...

N.J. Democrat who barely won re-election in 2020 already has wads of cash for 2022 race Updated 1:01 PM; Facebook Share Rep. Tom Malinowski, barely re-elected in 2020, brought in more money than ever before as he prepares to defend his seat in 2022. Malinowski, D-7th Dist., raised $923,020 from Jan. 1 to March 31, new Federal Election Commission filings show. That’s more than he previously raised in any three-month period during in any three-month period in either 2017 or 2019, the off-years before Election Day. He entered April with $820,591 in his campaign bank account. “A lot of peopl...

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Female union leaders note that labor law reform is a civil rights issue April 14, 2021 10:00 AM CDT By Mark Gruenberg AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Liz Shuler discusses how the PRO Act will help working women. She is joined by Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation President Chelsie Glaubitz Gabiou; Nebraska State AFL-CIO President/Secretary Treasurer Sue Martin; Wisconsin Stat...