At our request, an Appropriations Committee committee clerk distributes CDs containing a report detailing hundreds of suggestions from MSEA-SEIU members on how to help balance the state budget. Click here for full story.

MSEA-SEIU Interim Executive Director Steve Butterfield answers questions from Appropriations Committee members on March 10 about our report detailing hundreds of cost-savings ideas aimed at helping to balance the state budget. Click here for full story.

Click here for President Hodsdon's column:
"How to Make the Difference"

• MSEA-SEIU Members: Hundreds of Ways to Help Balance the State Budget
  
  
• Union Members: Restore Longevity!
  
  
• Think Spring! Think Red Sox! See the Red Sox v. Royals on Saturday, May 29, 2010; Bus/Ticket Package Available for MSEA-SEIU Members!
  
  
• March 4: Governor's New Budget Proposal Restores Longevity Pay Effective July 1, 2010, and Eliminates the Proposed Three Additional Shutdown Days, Making Moot the Need for a Payroll Push
  
  
• March 4: Governor's New Budget Proposal Restores Funding for Many Services Provided By Our Members; Contact Your Legislators Right Away and Urge Them to Support It
  
  
• Letter to Editor in Portland Press Herald by MSEA-SEIU Director Melanie Collins in Support of L.D. 1665 (Paid Sick Leave)
  
  
• Attention MSEA-SEIU Members Who Lost Their Longevity Pay! Call your State Legislators Now! Urge Them to Support L.D. 1594, “An Act to Restore Longevity Pay”
  
  
• Register Online! MSEA-SEIU Labor-Management, Health & Safety Training Summit Set for March 31 for MSEA-SEIU Members on These Types of Committees
  
  
• Register Online! MSEA-SEIU Regional Leadership Training Summits Set for April 10 in Bangor and Augusta, and April 24 in Presque Isle and South Portland
  
  
• Resources for Workers Facing Layoff and/or Loss of Health Coverage
  
  
• Executive Branch Reclassification & Pay Study Updates
  
  
• MSEA-SEIU Member in the News: Home Care Worker Janet "Dixie" Lewis of the Maine Direct Care Workers Union Local 771 of MSEA-SEIU
  
  
• Congratulations to MSEA-SEIU Steward Ryan Campbell. He's a DOT crew leader from Charleston in Region 4 who JUST WON THE WORLD CHAMPION SNOW FIGHTER RODEO IN QUEBEC on February 10. Check out the video!
  
  
• Over 100 MSEA-SEIU Members Pack Appropriations Committee Hearing Room Urging Legislators to Restore Longevity Pay
  
  
• MSEA-SEIU Area II Retirees Post 2010 Meeting Schedule
  
  
• Massive Food Drive Set for All MSEA-SEIU Chapters
  
  
• Photo Slideshow from Maine AFL-CIO Lobby Day: Union Members Urge Legislators to Keep Maine People Working
  
  
• Union Pursues Proposal to Restore Longevity Pay Beginning July 1, 2010, and Eliminate Proposed Three Additional Shutdown Days
  
  
• Op-Ed Column in Portland Press Herald: Paid Sick days: Good for Families, Good for Businesses
  
  
• Bangor Daily News Story: Saufley Says State of the Courts Still 'Precarious'
  
  
• January 15 Legislative Update -- MSEA-SEIU Members to Legislators: Stand Up for Quality Services!
  
  
• SEIU Local 560 Members Decry Proposed Cuts at Dartmouth College
  
  
• Mainers Pack State House Hall of Flags Urging Legislators to Find a Better Way!
  
  
• MSEA-SEIU Members Testify Against Legislation Adding Three Additional Shutdown Days to the 20 Already Booked in the Current Budget

  • President Hodsdon's Testimony Opposing Three Additional Shutdown Days
    
    
• MSEA-SEIU's Oldest Retiree Member, George Dyer, Dies at Age 103
  
  
• Tell State Legislators How Three Additional Unpaid State Shutdown Days Would Affect the Work You Do and the Services You Provide
  
  
• Battered by the Storm: How the Safety Net Is Failing Americans and How to Fix It
  
  
• Mark Your Calendars: 2010 MSEA-SEIU Training Dates
  
  
• Nine SEIU Members, including MSEA-SEIU Kids First Member Melanie Collins, Explain What Healthcare Reform Means to Them
  
  
• Big Businesses' Skewed View on Paid Sick Leave
  
  
• Want to Get Updates Directly From SEIU? Sign Up Here!
  
  
• Looking for Union Books?
  
  
• Get York County Working Again!
  
  
• Executive Branch: Summary of Changes and Additions to Contract Articles and Memorandums of Agreement for the 2009-2011 Contracts
  
  
• Membership Discounts Available Through Our International Union (SEIU)
  
  
• Arbitrator Backs Union in Call-Out Pay Decision Affecting All of Our Four Executive Branch Units
  
  
• Text of State Law Imposing Shutdown Days, Freezing Merit Increases and Suspending Longevity Pay for State Workers