Title
Maine environmentalists and labor activists are joining forces because of a shar
Date
12-8-2000
Pages
12-13
Abstract
Maine environmentalists and labor activists are joining forces because of a shared disdain for Gov. Angus King's administration and its Department of Labor. According to the newly allied protest groups, Maine's labor laws are being broken on a regular basis and state government does nothing. Valerie Landry, King's labor commissioner, admits her department is complaint-driven rather than activist. But Landry pointed out that she has only four wage-and-hour inspectors for 40,000 businesses and two monitor-advocates for 12,000 annual migrant workers. John Hanson, director of the University of Maine's labor education bureau since 1978, has a long perspective on the relationship between environmentalists and organized working people, and he is cautiously optimistic that a merging of interests is taking place.
Subjects
Environmentalists, Labor and laboring classes, Maine Department of Labor, Maine Governor
Recommended Citation
Tapley, Lance, "Maine environmentalists and labor activists are joining forces because of a shar" (2000). Maine News Index – Portland Phoenix. 285.
https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/news_phoenix/285
Source
Portland Phoenix