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Cokie Giles of Brewer is president of the Maine State Nurses Association and vice president of National Nurses United. Jenna Schaab of Lewiston is the president of the Young Workers Committee of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 567.

In the coming weeks, we anticipate that Gov. Janet Mills will announce her run for the U.S. Senate. As representatives of union members across Maine, we are delivering a message to Mills: Please do not run for Senate.

Next year’s midterm election results will likely decide the future of our democracy and our nation’s economic stability. In just his fi

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