{"id":14473,"date":"2025-10-15T17:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:33:14","slug":"maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine’s Platner now has the support of 3 labor unions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner\u2019s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state\u2019s governor, Janet Mills, entered the race as the preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment.<\/p>\n

The United Auto Workers endorsed the oyster farmer on Wednesday, joining the Maine State Nurses Association and International Federation of Professional and Technical Engineers, in a contest that could help shape<\/a> the ideological contours of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

\u201cInequality is out of control in our country,\u201d UAW President Shawn Fain said in a statement Wednesday<\/a>. \u201cToday, the top 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% of humanity combined. Graham understands this, and at a time when too many politicians take their cues from billionaires and corporate lobbyists, he has chosen to stand with the working class.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UAW represents nearly 2,000 employees in the Pine Tree State.<\/p>\n

Mills launched her campaign on Tuesday<\/a>, capping off a recruiting effort from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who views her as Democrats\u2019 best chance to unseat the state\u2019s longtime Republican Sen. Susan Collins.<\/p>\n

But Platner has secured an endorsement from Sen. Bernie Sanders<\/a> in August and has been praised by Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and spoke privately with Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.).<\/p>\n

The Maine State Nurses Association has cast Platner as the best candidate to defend Maine residents from health care cuts in Republicans\u2019 signature One Big Beautiful Bill law.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmid the recklessness with which the Trump administration and his Republican-controlled Congress treat everyday working people, Graham Platner heard his calling to stand with nurses, our patients, and our communities to build a better country for all of us,\u201d Juliana Hansen, a nurse at Maine Medical Center, said in a statement in September.<\/p>\n

Mills\u2019 and Platner\u2019s campaigns did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Blue Light News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner\u2019s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state\u2019s governor, Janet Mills, entered the race as the preferred candidate of the Democratic establishment. The United Auto Workers endorsed the oyster farmer on Wednesday, joining the Maine State Nurses Association and International Federation of Professional and Technical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}