2,000 Maine Nurses Form Union In Major Election Win
Maine Medical Center made news when it brought in anti-union consultants from out of state to fight the organizing drive.
Nurses in Maine appeared to have won one of the largest U.S. union elections in recent years on Thursday, voting by a 57-43 margin to join the Maine State Nurses Association in a preliminary tally.
If the labor board certifies the results of the mail-in election, the union will represent roughly 2,000 workers employed by Maine Medical Center at three facilities, the bulk of them at Maine Med in Portland.
Union elections involving thousands of private-sector workers have become rare in the U.S. The Maine vote is the largest this year aside from the unsuccessful union campaign involving 5,800 workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama.