Maine Trust for Local News Workers Launch Union Expansion Effort

Union "Forcing" Owners Of Maine's Biggest News Conglomerate To Spread The Wealth

The owners of Maine’s largest financially-challenged paper have a new headache on their hands – an expansionist union. The staffers at the smaller weeklies owned by the Maine Trust for Local News (MTLN) want in on bigger wages. Though the weeklies are considered the training grounds, the staffers think they should be paid the same [...] The post Union “Forcing” Owners Of Maine’s Biggest News Conglomerate To Spread The Wealth appeared first on Th…

Maine Trust for Local News workers launch 'One Big Union' campaign

Maine Trust for Local News workers launched a “One Big Union” campaign Tuesday with a rally in South Portland. Workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to welcome nearly 50 additional members into their union. Megan Gray, the president of the News Guild of Maine and a Press Herald reporter, said a group of nearly 50 workers from other Maine papers filed a petition today. “We have a really strong union history here amongst…

Maine Trust for Local News workers launch union expansion effort

Staff have filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board and are asking the parent company of the Press Herald and other newspapers to recognize nearly 50 additional employees as part of the News Guild of Maine.

Maine Trust for Local News workers launch "One Big Union" campaign Tuesday

Workers filed a petition with the National Labor Relations Board to welcome nearly 50 additional members into their union.

Maine Trust for Local News workers rally to expand their union

Workers and union organizers walk out of the Portland Press Herald offices in South Portland, Maine on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025, to attend a rally in support of expanding their union to cover reporters at other publications run by the Press Herald's parent organization, the Maine Trust for Local News. (Photo by Troy R. Bennett/ Maine Morning Star)About three dozen reporters, photographers, page designers and union activists gathered on a brown law…

Maine news workers launch one big union

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