BREWER -- As Labor Day approaches, a national labor organization is touring the country advocating for union rights, on Tuesday they made a stop in Eastern Maine.

Dozens of workers, labor leaders and community members rallied in Brewer to stand in solidarity with public and local workers fighting for union rights.

"The ability of working class people to organize, is paramount in fighting for working class people," said United States Senate Candidate, Graham Platner.

The rally is the 41st stop on the The American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO)"It's Better in a Union" national bus tour, a national campaign traveling across the country ahead of Labor Day.

"The national AFL-CIO, all of the unions came together for this bus tour to go criss-cross the

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