Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner’s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state’s governor, Janet Mills, entered the race as the preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment.
The United Auto Workers endorsed the oyster farmer Wednesday, joining the Maine State Nurses Association and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, in a contest that could help shape the ideological contours of the Democratic Party.
“Inequality is out of control in our country,” UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Wednesday. “Today, the top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% of humanity…
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