It would seem our Governor has learned what most four year olds do. If you cannot get attention by doing something good then doing something bad will get you a few looks.
The Governor now appears to be wanting to get his name in the papers as one of the tough guys taking on the unions and labor movement.
We already know that Governor LePage would not mind Maine women having little beards were we able to get a few more industrial jobs in the state. We know that soon he will want to cut taxes on businesses and the wealthiest while proclaiming that state workers need to make sacrifices. Now we hear rumors of a right to work law in the legislature which will again make an attempt to cripple union power in the state.
Union power already is almost an oxymoronic term in the state but the Governor and his cronies surely want unions completly demoralized and powerless.
So now with all this on the plate the Governor has ordered that the murals of the labor movement in the State of Maine be removed from the lobby of the state's Department of Labor building. Does anyone besides me find this to be ridiculous. It is not the Commerce department, it is not your local Chamber of Commerce building, it is the Department of LABOR.
Lepage states that visitors to the building do not feel welcome if they feel only half the labor movement is celebrated. For goodness sake should the labor department building celebrate the corporations. Maybe we could have a picture of the International Paper owners who broke the union in Jay?
This is a fight picked for a purpose. LePage knows what fight he is starting. Maybe the cool kids Like Governor Walker in Wisconsin and Kasich in Ohio won't let him sit at the cool kids table when they all get together. LePage wants his seat at that table, he evidently does not mind if you have trouble putting food on yours.
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