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Bangor residents and labor leaders press council over comp time, vacation disparity for municipal workers
Summary
At the Jan. 27 Bangor City Council meeting multiple residents, union leaders and labor groups urged the council to address staffing, comp time and a recent decision to give a week of vacation to nonunion employees while leaving union workers to negotiate for the same benefit.
At the Jan. 27, 2025 meeting of the Bangor City Council, residents, union leaders and labor organizations urged councilors to address what they described as unequal treatment of union municipal workers, particularly public works and airport staff.
Speakers said the city offered a week of vacation to nonunion employees while telling union workers they must obtain the same benefit through collective bargaining and potentially give up comp time to do so. Adam Good, legislative and political director for the Maine AFL-CIO, said the city’s approach amounted to a “classic divide and conquer tactic, designed to limit the power of workers who take collective action to form a union and to negotiate and enforce collective bargaining…
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