The union that represents staff of Tub Iron Works introduced its intent on Monday to additionally characterize a bunch of amenities mechanics at Northern Mild Jap Maine Medical Middle in Bangor.
Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Employees District Lodge 4 in Lisbon Falls filed a petition with the Nationwide Labor Relations Board to characterize 26 expert upkeep employees who work on the Bangor hospital, mentioned Tim Suitter, a union spokesperson.
The union represents greater than 5,000 machinists throughout Maine and New Hampshire, in accordance with Andy O’Brien, the communications director for the Maine AFL-CIO, with which the Machinists are affiliated.
District Lodge 4 is the Machinists’ organizing arm for native models in Maine. That features Native S6, which represents 4,300 employees at Tub Iron Works.
“We’re wanting ahead to an election,” Suitter mentioned.
Northern Mild’s vice chairman of human sources and affected person expertise, Ali Worster, mentioned that the hospital community would reply to the petition later this month, and would respect staff’ rights to arrange and “observe the suitable course of for an election.”
“These are valued members of our well being care crew, important for responsive and agile help of our sufferers and employees,” Worster mentioned. “Whereas we respect the best to unionize, we choose a direct relationship with our leaders and care groups.”
The Machinists don’t characterize another employees at EMMC, although the Maine State Nurses Affiliation represents some 900 nurses there.
The Machinists additionally characterize drivers at Kennebec Valley Group Motion Companions in Waterville, commerce employees on the Woodland Pulp mill in Baileyville, millwrights on the Sappi North America paper mill in Skowhegan and the Maine Lobstering Union in Trenton.
The union drive can be the second at a Maine hospital in as a few years, although not as massive because the nurse unionization drive at Maine Medical Middle in April 2021.
Some 57 % of the Portland hospital’s 1,700 nurses voted then to unionize with the Maine State Nurses Affiliation, which is affiliated with Nationwide Nurses United.
