Information on Organized Labor
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References
Scontras, C. A. (1994). Collective Efforts Among Maine Workers: Beginnings and Foundations, 1820-1880. University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education.
Scontras, C. A. (2000). In the Name of Humanity: Maine’s Crusade Against Child Labor. University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education.
Scontras, C. A. (2002). Organized Labor in Maine: War, Reaction, Depression, and the Rise of the CIO 1914-1943. Bureau of Labor Education, The University of Maine.
Scontras, C. A. (1989). Origins of Labor Day in Maine. University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education.
Scontras, C. A. (2016). Time-Line of Selected Highlights of Maine Labor History, 1636-2015. University of Maine Bureau of Labor Education.
Maine Department of Labor, et al. History of Labor in Maine. Paper 5, 2001.
Portland Longshoremans Benevolent Society Bylaws. [Maine Historical Society]. 1881.
MAINE GRANITE WORKERS ON MOUNT DESERT ISLAND, 1890
This photo of nineteen men and three oxen was taken while at work in the granite quarries at Hall Quarry, ca. 1885. The quarry was named for Cyrus Hall, who came to Mount Desert Island (MDI) in the early 1870s for timber, but soon discovered that there was a large market for the pink easy to carve granite he found on MDI.
By 1871 Hall had opened Hall Quarry, cutting cellar stone and paving blocks for Boston. He soon opened more quarries around the island, as the location, boundless supply of stone, and deep water access were ideal for business. Stones were loaded directly onto boats that would transport them all over the county. The most notable projects that used stone from Mount Desert Island were the Congressional Library [Library of Congress], the Brooklyn Bridge and the Philadelphia Mint.
-- From Maine Memory Network
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Gregory Floyd |
| Abstract | Worker activism saw a resurgence as COVID-19 ravaged the U.S. economy and endangered its workforce. |
| Date | August 12, 2021 |
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| Publication | The New York Amsterdam News |
| Issue | 10 |
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Karen Juanita Carrillo |
| Abstract | Labor union approval is up to 71% from 64% before the pandemic, and is the highest Gallup has recorded on this measure since 1965. |
| Date | September 8, 2022 |
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| Volume | 113 |
| Pages | 10-31 |
| Publication | The New York Amsterdam News |
| Issue | 36 |
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Julia Lurie |
| Abstract | Lawmakers are still pushing the boundaries of trying to make farmworkers seem like they're not like other types of workers, ”that they can stay treated differently, and their bodies can stand to undergo more harm. |
| Date | January/February 2021 |
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| Volume | 46 |
| Pages | 46-64 |
| Publication | Mother Jones |
| Issue | 1 |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Parija Kavilanz |
| Author | Danielle Wiener-Bronner |
| Abstract | The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union, which represents more than 250,000 workers in meatpacking plants, said the findings indicate a "desperate need of a comprehensive meat processing safety bill." |
| Date | May 12, 2022 |
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| Publication | CNN Wire Service |
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Aaron Larson |
| Abstract | Union members were better able to keep their jobs during the pandemic than their non-union counterparts. |
| Date | March 2021 |
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| Volume | 165 |
| Pages | 4 |
| Publication | Power |
| Issue | 3 |
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Adam Dean |
| Author | Jamie McCallum |
| Author | Simeon D. Kimmel |
| Author | Atheendar S. Venkataramani |
| Abstract | Study examines resident mortality and worker infection rates from COVID-19 in US unionized nursing homes, 2020-21. Unions were associated with 10.8 percent lower resident COVID-19 mortality rates, as well as 6.8 percent lower worker COVID-19 infection rates. |
| Date | 2022-05-01 |
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| Volume | 41 |
| Pages | 751-759 |
| Publication | Health Affairs |
| Issue | 5 |
| Item Type | Newspaper Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Lucas High |
| Abstract | The balance of power in the labor market has shifted slightly, or perhaps a bit more than slightly, away from the employer and toward the employee. Employees are in a position to negotiate more-advantageous bargains with their employers. |
| Date | July 2022 |
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| Publication | BizWest |
| Item Type | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author | Abigail Adams |
| Abstract | Fighting for fairness in the future. |
| Date | 2/15/2021 |
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| Volume | 197 |
| Pages | 62-65 |
| Publication | Time Magazine |
| Issue | 5/6 |