The Fight for Employee Free Choice was taken to
Rite Aid Stores in Bangor and across the country!

Coverage of the Thursday, April 2nd event:
• Groups protest Rite Aid action (Bangor Daily News)
• Workers' Rights Group Protests Outside Rite Aid (WABI channel 5)
• Protesters Gather At Rite Aid In Bangor (WLBZ channel 2)
        Click here to go directly to video of the WLBZ news coverage

Food AND Medicine in the news nationally! 
Both Food AND Medicine and Steve Husson were mentioned in this story by Barbara Ehrenreich: Trying to find a job is not a job: Keeping the unemployed busy is an exercise in denial -- and social control. 

Food's getting personal: CSAs help open the dialogue between you and your food

Try unemployment
Food AND Medicine's Steve Husson responds to Penobscot County Republican Chairwoman Lois Bloomer in this Bangor Daily News editorial.

Fairpoint Struggling with Debt Payment
Strong warnings were issued by labor leaders prior to the sale to Fairpoint by Verizon of northern New England's land-line telephone system. The issue was that Fairpoint would struggle to accomplish system modernization and extension of broadband in rural areas while trying to service an enormous $2 billion debt load. According to a story in the Bangor Daily News, Fairpoint wants to "delay a scheduled $11.25 million debt payment" due this month until June. Click here for video of Food AND Medicine's September 2007 warning.

Haunted House of Economic Horros
Click here for a video of the Halloween trip through the Underworld featuring job stress, pension loss, health care failure, and crushing debt. Worker solidarity is the only way to slay these monsters. Created by William Rice for the Eastern Maine Labor Council & Food AND Medicine.

Stuart Acuff
AFL-CIO organizer Stuart Acuff gave a  fiery oratory to a crowd at the 2006 4th July Solidarity Celebration, Eastern Maine Labor Council, Brewer, Maine. This 10-minute video is slightly edited to fit in YouTube. For a downloadable audio-only mp3 podcast of the full 12-minute Stuart Acuff speech, please visit peacecast.us here.

The EMMC Struggle on WERU
Click here to listen to WERU's Voices program from March 2006 on the EMMC workers' struggle. The program includes testimony by EMMC worker Mike Tripp at the Real Security Hearing.