By Lauren McCauley | Editor
“Our nurses who remained at the bedside were angry, and what was meant to scare them only fueled their fire. Because we were all fighting for what our nurses and our patients need, the level of care our community deserves.” - Katie Grinnell, a registered nurse at Central Maine Medical Center who was fired, speaking after her former colleagues voted to unionize.
A provision in the proposed Maine Department of Corrections disciplinary policy overlaid on a photo taken outside Maine State Prison. (Photo by Evan Popp/ Maine Morning Star)
JUSTICE
By Emma Davis
The Maine Department of Corrections has opted to continue its policy that allows staff to punish incarcerated people before and regardless of a finding of guilt, underscoring the discretion that props up the prison system.
IMMIGRATION
By Emma Davis
President Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement could result in the state losing anywhere from $395 million to $3.3 billion in annual economic output.
That’s according to a report commissioned by the Maine Office of New Americans, which assessed the contributions of more than 33,000 foreign-born workers in Maine and modeled how federal enforcement could leave employers across various sectors critically short of workers.
LABOR
By Kaitlyn Budion
Roughly 80 people rallied across the street from Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston on Friday to support the facility’s newly unionized nurses and call on the hospital to reinstate nurses that were fired and suspended.
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