{"id":14629,"date":"2025-10-20T03:20:13","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T03:20:13","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:20:13","slug":"maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/maines-platner-now-has-the-support-of-3-labor-unions-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine\u2019s Platner now has the support of 3 labor unions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner&rsquo;s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state&rsquo;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&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/10\/15\/congress\/platner-endorsements-00609196\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organized labor is getting behind Graham Platner&rsquo;s upstart Maine Senate primary campaign, just a day after the state&rsquo;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&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629","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=14629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}