To: The Maine State House, The Maine State Senate, and Governor Janet Mills

Stop Wisconsin-style Attacks on Maine Workers

I oppose L.D. 309 and all so-called ‘right-to-work’ bills that take away the rights of workers to come together and form a strong union with the power to bargain over wages, benefits, job security, and safer work places.

Why is this important?

I’m Will Towers, a corrections officer from Oakland, Maine. My co-workers and I are willing to work together with the state to help solve our state’s fiscal situation. But we’re not willing to have our rights attacked.

Instead of working with Maine’s state workers, our rabidly anti-worker governor, Paul LePage, is attacking us and our unions.

Last week, I learned that LePage and his friends in the legislature are pushing a bill misleadingly called “right to work,” starting with a hearing this Thursday at 2:30p.m.

L.D. 309—the bill our legislators will be considering—doesn’t give workers rights. It takes them away. It directly challenges the right of me and my co-workers to bargain freely over our wages, benefits and working conditions.

I’ve had enough of Gov. LePage and his friends in the Maine legislature doing the bidding corporate CEOs, Wall Street hedge fund managers and out-of-state special interest groups who poured money into Maine’s 2010 elections.