Mark Eves has received official endorsements from the following organizations:
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“What is MEA?
MEA is a professional association of educators that bargains collectively for its members. Our mission and goals are to:
• advance the cause of public education;
• protect human and civil rights;
• advocate for professional excellence and autonomy of the profession;
• guarantee the independence of the profession;
and,
• protect the rights of educators and advance their interest and welfare.
What does MEA do?
Through contracts negotiated by our local affiliates, MEA fights for better working-teaching-learning conditions and competitive salaries, insurance coverage, and benefits.
MEA staff members ensure that your contractual and legal rights are protected through grievances and legal services.
MEA’s legislative program lobbies the Maine Legislature and Congress for school funding, education laws that make sense, and licensure requirements that meet the needs of the profession. We also oppose those political interests who would ruin public education.
Our professional programs support student instruction, classroom management, and personal and professional growth. Our special services programs provide consumer benefits with substantial economic benefit to members.”
Information from the MEA website, http://www.maine.nea.org/index.htm
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"MCSC is the Maine affiliate of the Alliance of Retired Americans. Our mission, “Fostering the Desires and Aspirations of Maine Seniors,” has directed our activities for more than a decade. Our members advocate and lobby on behalf of all Maine seniors on volunteer basis. We help seniors with information and support on a host of issues of concern. Currently, our membership has swollen to over 3,000 individual and group members. Over the years our advocacy activities have included:
• Access to Low Cost Prescription Drugs
• Fight to Preserve Social Security
• Medicare / Medicaid Reform
• Universal Health Care
• Maintaining the Clean Election Program
• Affordable Health Insurance for all"
Information from the MCSC website, http://www.maineaflcio.org/mcsc%20index.htm.
Maine People's Alliance -- Campaign Vote 2008!
“MPA's purpose is to bring individuals and organizations together to realize shared goals. We focus on leadership development to increase the number of citizen leaders prepared to work for positive social change. . .
We are currently conducting campaigns for Universal Single Payer Health Care coverage, successful implementation of Dirigo Health, eliminating mercury from the Penobscot River, affordable housing, adoption of an integrated chemicals policy in Maine, defending the initiative and referendum processes from attack, protecting the civil justice system, and increasing voter participation. In the past, we have worked on utility rate reform, campaign finance reform, child care issues, economic development, land use, housing, cleanup of toxic dumpsites, totally chlorine free paper production, and voter registration.”
Information from MPA’s website, http://www.mainepeoplesalliance.org/index.html
MAINE STATE EMPLOYEES ASSOCIATION SEIU Local 1989
“About MSEA . . . SEIU Local 1989 - the Maine State Employees Association -- is a labor union representing more than 15,000 public and private sector workers throughout Maine. We are committed to improving the lives of workers and their families through aggressive advocacy at the bargaining table and in the halls of the Legislature and Congress.
MSEA is a member run organization . . .
We are active and retired workers of Maine State Governments' Executive, Judicial and Legislative Branches, Maine State Retirement System, Maine Community College System, Maine Maritime Academy, Maine Turnpike Authority, City of Lewiston, Green Valley Association, Treats Falls, York County, Alpha One, Home Care for Maine, Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, Maine Military Authority, Red Cross-Bangor, Waldo County, Child Development Services and Maine's Family Child Care providers. Our membership is expanding as more workers who provide services to the people of the State of Maine organize under our banner.”
From MSEA SEIU Local 1989 website, http://www.mseaseiu.org
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The Maine affiliate of the “American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is a voluntary federation of 56 national and international labor unions.
The AFL-CIO union movement represents 10.5 million members, including 2 million members in Working America, its new community affiliate. We are teachers and taxi drivers, musicians and miners, firefighters and farm workers, bakers and bottlers, engineers and editors, pilots and public employees, doctors and nurses, painters and plumbers—and more.”
Information taken from the AFL-CIO website, http://www.aflcio.org/index.cfm