by Andy O’Brien PHOTO: EMMC registered nurses announce their effort to form a union on July 11, 1975. One day Dottie Barron, a registered nurse at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, was called into her supervisor’s office. Her first thought was, “Oooh! Somebody is doing something!” What she heard next filled her with excitement. … Continue reading “We weren’t just fighting EMMC. We were fighting every hospital in the state of Maine.” — A History of Nurse Organizing in Maine