Nurses and unions press legislature to include more mental‑health workers in the 1998 special retirement plan Nurses and staff from Dorothea Dix and Riverview, supported by the Maine Service Employees Association, urged the Appropriations and HHS committees to include excluded classifications in LD 579 so frontline staff can access a 1998 special retirement plan acknowledging hazardous work conditions.

Frontline workers are calling for urgent changes to the retirement plan, revealing shocking accounts of violence and trauma in Maine's psychiatric facilities.

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