As Maine cleans up from another early winter storm, the Department of Transportation is trying to scrape up more than snow. For years, the department has struggled to find enough workers who are willing to toil through long days and nights clearing snow from the state’s public roads. Now the labor shortage appears to be […]
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Community Concepts seeks volunteer drivers for western Maine
LEWISTON — The Community Concepts Transportation Program is in need of volunteer drivers to help those with no other means of transportation get to essential medical appointments and other destinations. Drivers are needed throughout Androscoggin, Oxford and Franklin counties. Drivers need to have their own vehicles and liability insurance, and they should have clean driving […]
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How fast is too fast? The speed most likely to get you a ticket in Maine
How fast is too fast? According to the law, anything over the speed limit can get you a ticket, but many drivers think they can push the limit and be just fine. When state police trooper Marvin Hinkley is on Turnpike speed patrol, he’s looking for those drivers going way too fast. “I don’t write […]
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Oakhurst lawsuit survives lack of comma sense
PORTLAND — It all came down to a missing comma, and not just any one. And it’s reignited a longstanding debate over whether the punctuation is necessary. A federal appeals court decided this week to keep alive a lawsuit by dairy drivers seeking more than $10 million in an overtime pay dispute. It concerned Maine’s overtime […]
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Court keeps alive lawsuit by Oakhurst Dairy drivers
PORTLAND (AP) — The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston has kept alive a lawsuit by Oakhurst Dairy drivers seeking more than $10 million in an overtime pay dispute. Plaintiffs sued in 2014 on behalf of 75 drivers, arguing Oakhurst Dairy and its parent company, Dairy Farmers of America, violated the Fair Labor […]
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Arbitrator rules Auburn’s outsourcing bus drivers did not violate labor contract
AUBURN — A labor mediator has ruled that the School Department did not violate collective bargaining when it privatized its bus drivers to Northeast Charter of Lewiston. The School Committee voted last August to eliminate its transportation department positions, including 23 bus drivers, a mechanic and three bus aides. The union representing the bus drivers, […]