Member Leaders from Maine & Puerto Rico Unite at Maine AFL-CIO Summer Institute

This week, members from BMDA Local 3999, NOLSW Local 2320, and the UMaine Graduate Workers Union participated in the annual Maine AFL-CIO Summer Institute along with invited guests from UAW Local 2415 from Bacardi Corp in Puerto Rico.

This year’s summer institute focused on the role of shop stewards in the fight to control the shop floor, enforce the contract, and organize the membership. Among other events, attendees rallied on the steps of the University of Maine’s Fogler Library to call on UMaine to agree to a fair first contract with graduate workers, who have been bargaining for over 600 days.