On July 20th, in response to the sudden closure of the Chipotle Mexican Grill in Augusta that had recently announced their first-in-the-nation unionization campaign, comrades from Maine DSA drove up to support their fellow workers in protest. Also...
On Saturday, June 4 the Maine State Council of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM or simply “the Machinists'') hosted their Biennial Conference in South Portland. The conference featured twelve keynote speakers,...
Today, Maine DSA for a Livable Portland filed paperwork with the City of Portland to pursue four citizen initiatives for November 2022. These referenda are a bid to make the city that we love and reside in livable: not only for business owners, not...
On May Day, 2022, hundreds of people from thirty communities rallied to their nearby Hannafords to urge the corporation to respect dairy farm workers. As it stands, Hannaford cannot guarantee that the dairy they offer comes from farms that treat...
This piece was drafted on March 25, when Maine DSA members joined the picket line in solidarity with striking machinists at Cummins Inc. Pine & Roses is happy to report that after nearly two months on strike, the workers voted to ratify a new...
Both the Maine House and Senate have recently passed LD 1816, An Act To Promote Labor Education through the University of Maine System. This bill would direct the University of Maine System to establish a labor and community education center at the...
A version of this article was originally published on Bill of Health, the blog of Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, as part of a digital symposium, Build Back Better? Health, Disability, and the Future of Work Post-COVID. The author draws...
The following is from Marc Normandin's ongoing project "Baseball coverage, featuring leftism" where he primarily discusses baseball, but other sports, too, with a focus on labor through a leftist lens. You can check out his work and sign up for his...
This piece was contributed by reader and Southern New Hampshire DSA member Tim Denby. Tim attended Pine & Roses' January 22nd workshop where we asked attendees to write editorial pieces. If you live in northern New England and would like to...