Today is Tuesday. Temperatures will range from the upper 80s inland to the low 70s on the coast with sunny skies throughout the state. Here's what we're talking about in Maine today.

Picketing BIW workers undeterred as they enter strike amid pandemic slowdown

• As the coronavirus threatens a potentially long recession in Maine and across the country, workers said Monday that it hasn’t compromised their leverage. On Monday, strikers seemed happy to be in open air, collecting honks of approval from cars driving by.
  
  Levi Benner, a shipfitter from Lisbon, held a printed list of career centers, job fairs and companies looking for help. He referenced the shipyard’s starting wage of just under $16 for laborers by saying “you can get that at Target.”
   
• PLUS: The 4 ways Maine politicians responded to the Bath Iron Works strike

• The three Democrats vying for the nomination to face U.S. Sen. Susan Collins differed on policing, health care and economic policy as two insurgents tried to gain momentum in a rare Monday forum with the nationally backed frontrunner.

Nicky’s Cruisin Diner in Bangor is closing after more than 30 years in business

• After more than 32 years, the owners of Nicky’s Cruisin Diner on Union Street in Bangor said Monday that June 30 will be the restaurant’s last day in business. 

In other Maine news...

• Jackson Lab president says bungled US virus response expedited its testing ramp-up
   
• Bangor leaves body cameras out of next year’s budget
   
• Bowdoin won’t welcome all students back to campus this fall