Nearly 50 Workers employed at the Maine Trust for Local News have won their National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Election to join the News Guild of Maine - NewsGuild-Communications Workers of America (TNG-CWA) Local 31128, which brings the total number of Workers in the Union to more than 200. The number of eligible voters was 49. The vote count was 34-to-1. The newest members of the News Guild of Maine include Reporters, Photographers, Copy Editors, Designers, Advertising Representatives and Business Staff at The Sun Journal in Lewiston and The Times Record in Brunswick, as well as the weekly newspapers and newsletters in Southern and Western Maine. “Those of us who are not represented have little influence over the environment in which we work. That changes today,” said Kendra Caruso, a Staff Writer at The Sun Journal. “We demand equal pay, equal respect and the same job securities that our represented colleagues have. As one company, one Union and under one contract, we will hold the company accountable to its stated mission.”

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