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Legislative Scorecard

LD187 - Right to Work For Less

(2025)

An Act to Prohibit Labor Organizations from Imposing Mandatory Service Fees on Nonmembers

LD187 bill text Maine AFL-CIO Opposed

Sponsored by Sponsored by Representative Joshua Morris (R-Turner)

What is the bill?

So called “right-to-work” laws are designed to weaken unions, drive down wages and allow workers to get the benefits of unions without paying dues. Currently in Maine in the private sector, unions and employers can negotiate contracts where all workers who benefit from a collective bargaining agreement share in the costs of bargaining and representation. LD 187 would have made it illegal for employers and employees to agree that all workers who benefit from a collective bargaining agreement share in the costs.

What happened?

Defeated

Votes

Senate

20 Pro-labor 12 Anti-labor

House

76 Pro-labor 64 Anti-labor