The Negotiating Committee elected last week will be looking toward Ingalls, where the Pascagoula Metal Trades Council just ratified a contract including an 18% pay raise. The winners are listed below. The number of votes they received is indicated in parentheses.

1. Terry Frost (305)
2. Tim Halle (268)
3. Marc Lindvall (231)
4. Devin Ragnar (214)
5. Rick Sites (182)

Terry Frost catapulted to first place after his decisive Conductor-Sentinel victory last year, guaranteeing the second shift a seat at the table. Frosty was the only candidate to win more than 300 votes. He beat the second place winner by 37 votes. Tim Halle, Marc Lindvall, and Devin Ragnar all cleared 200 votes. Rick Sites, the fifth-place winner, narrowly beat out the sixth and seventh-place runner ups with 182 votes. Sites beat Ray Orff (180) by just two votes, while Ryan Ryder (174) fell short by 8 votes. Members of the Election Committee tell me that there were less than 500 votes in total. Fifty ballots were voided. See the official ballot results below.

In Maine News

Gubernatorial debate

• Bangor Daily News: Fact-checking 4 claims from the raucous Troy Jackson-Bobby Charles debate
• Maine Public: This novel Maine gubernatorial debate was born from a social media tussle. Will there be more?
• Portland Press Herald: Candidates for Maine governor Troy Jackson, Bobby Charles exchange jabs in Auburn debate

Healthcare

• The Maine Monitor: Should Maine allow associate dentists without doctoral degrees? Dentists don’t think so
• Maine Morning Star: Speaker Fecteau pitches $250 million in state funding to offset federal health care cuts

House district 94 election

• Beacon: Democrat Scott Harriman wins Lewiston House seat
• The Hill: Democrat wins special state House election in Maine

Immigration

• Portland Press Herald: Pausing work permits for asylum seekers would hurt Maine’s economy, officials say
• The Times Record: Brunswick neighbors mobilize following series of ICE arrests

Bangor Daily News: Graham Platner deletes social media post after backlash over source

Erin In The Morning: Billionaire-funded anti-trans bathroom/sports ban ballot initiative moves forward in Maine

IAM Union: Maine State Council unanimously endorses IAM member Mark Vigliotta for Sanford-area state senate seat

Maine Morning Star: Maine lawmakers advance state-level ‘sensitive locations’ immigration policy

Midcoast Villager: Rockland man arrested after reckless driving near protestors

Scontras Center: The state of the unions. Organized labor in Maine, 2022-2024

University of New Hampshire: In Maine Senate race, Platner leads Mills in primary and Collins in general election matchup

In National News

Artificial intelligence

• 404 Media: Meta’s AI patent to simulate dead people shows the dangers of ‘spectral labor’
• Axios: Pentagon takes first step toward blacklisting Anthropic
• People’s World: U.S. faces fast loss of 100 million jobs to Artificial Intelligence

Immigration

• AP: A nearly blind refugee is found dead after Border Patrol agents drop him at Buffalo doughnut shop
• Columbia Spectator: Elmina Aghayeva, GS ’26, released from ICE custody, after Mamdani, Trump talks
• The Guardian: US citizen shot and killed by federal immigration agent last year, new records show
• Mother Jones: DHS abducts Columbia student from college housing
• Mother Jones: Nurul Amin Shah Alam, blind Rohingya refugee dumped by Border Patrol, dies in cold
• Reuters: DHS agent killed US citizen in March 2025, records show

Tariff ruling

• AP: Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s sweeping tariffs, sparking fierce pushback and vow of new levies
• Mother Jones: Supreme Court strikes down Trump’s tariff regime
• Reuters: Winners and losers from Trump’s new 15% global tariff

AP: US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say

Current Affairs: Sean O’Brien sold Labor to Trump, and got nothing

IAM Union: Restores ‘Local 1’ title to Georgia railroad local tied to 1888 founding

Labor Notes: Workers need more paths to join the labor movement

Magnolia Tribune: Pascagoula Metal Trades Council approves new contract with Ingalls Shipbuilding

The Nation: How brothel workers in Nevada just made labor history

NPR: In reversal, Warner Bros. jilts Netflix for Paramount

The New Republic: Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk

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