GOP's scorched-labor war: GOP Governor Orders Removal of Pro-Labor Mura

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Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,” who in real life worked at the Bath Iron Works. One panel shows my predecessor at the U.S. Department of Labor, Frances Perkins, who was buried in Newcastle, Maine.

The LePage Administration is also renaming conference rooms that had carried the names of historic leaders of American labor, as well as former Secretary Perkins.

The Governor’s spokesman explains that the mural and the conference-room names were “not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.”

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150368

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Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history. Among other things the mural illustrates the 1937 shoe mill strike in Auburn and Lewiston. It also features the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,” who in real life worked at the Bath Iron Works. One panel shows my predecessor at the U.S. Department of Labor, Frances Perkins, who was buried in Newcastle, Maine.

The LePage Administration is also renaming conference rooms that had carried the names of historic leaders of American labor, as well as former Secretary Perkins.

The Governor’s spokesman explains that the mural and the conference-room names were “not in keeping with the department’s pro-business goals.”

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150368

Well it's obvious the people of Maine wanted this when they voted in a new governor

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Union-Busting: Six Fired After Demanding Sick Days for Fast-Food Workers

Over the past two months, union supporters had been campaigning to get the Mulligans to negotiate over their “10-Point Program for Justice at Jimmy John’s,” which includes wage increases, guaranteed hours, and better job security. Recently, they had begun to emphasize their demand for paid sick days, wearing buttons that said “Sick of Working Sick” and beginning to put up posters around the city.

The posters show two identical sandwiches, asking, “Can you tell which sandwich was made by a sick worker?” According to Boehnke, the union’s goal is to “make clear that workers are being forced to work sick” thanks to the lack of paid sick days, which endangers the health of customers.

The union says that workers have trouble calling in sick both because they fear being disciplined and cannot afford to miss out on a day’s work, since many workers earn the minimum wage of $7.25 an hour.

http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/150375

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GOP/VRWC to CITIZENS: FUCK YOU

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"Recently, they had begun to emphasize their demand for paid sick days, wearing buttons that said “Sick of Working Sick” and beginning to put up posters around the city.

The posters show two identical sandwiches, asking, “Can you tell which sandwich was made by a sick worker?”"

Placing posters questioning the quality of the very restaurant that pays them doesn't appear to be the brightest move they could've made.

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Would you eat a hamburger whose "quality" was assured by a diseased hamburger assembler?

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What a moron...

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Would you eat a hamburger whose "quality" was assured by a diseased hamburger assembler?

I don't think the workers are concerned about quality other than it's use as a vehicle to address their grievances.

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What a moron...

You wanna join the discussion with some actual content, little fella?

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As a point of clarification, bd, I don't really have a gripe with their position. Sick days should be a mandatory clause in any employment.

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Maine Governor Paul LePage has ordered state workers to remove from the state labor department a 36-foot mural depicting the state’s labor history.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2011/03/24/presidential-proclamation-100th-anniversary-triangle-shirtwaist-factory-

BO's got your back.

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VRWC would roll back employee protections and workplace safety to 1911 if it could, and it's trying.

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Fax That Compelled LePage To Take Down Labor Mural Conspicuously Missing Date/Time Stamp (Updated)

As ThinkProgress reported yesterday, Maine Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage (R) ordered the removal of a labor-themed mural from the state’s Department of Labor offices. LePage’s administration said they had received complaints from business owners who objected to the mural’s allegedly pro-labor undertones. But LePage has so far produced just a single complaint — an anonymous fax, a copy of which was released today. But as Maine progressive blog Dirigo Blue points out, the fax is missing the date/time and phone number stamp that fax machines automatically place on faxes:

more importantly, why is LePage making policy decisions based on a single fax from an anonymous “Secret Admirer”? Especially from a sender who saw the mural as reminiscent of “communist North Korea where they use these murals to brainwash the masses.”

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/03/24/lepage-mural-fax/