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As mentioned before this really did not have a chance.
This passed our legislature in 2021 but was vetoed by our Democrat governor Mills. That is why it became a referendum 2 years later.
Who will work for PTP?
If and when Pine Tree Power purchases the assets of CMP and Versant, the new nonprofit utility would have to hire an outside contractor (or contractors) to carry out the daily operations, routine maintenance and emergency response currently handled by employees of the two utilities.
In turn, that operations contractor will be required to hire back any of CMP’s and Versant’s unionized workers or other employees governed by contracts negotiated by the unions. The operator could also hire any other nonunionized or CMP or Versant employee except anyone who served on the two companies’ executive boards.
As an additional enticement, any returning workers would receive healthy retention bonuses of 8% and 6% during their first two years. Pine Tree Power and the new contractor must honor existing collective bargaining agreements and could not stop workers from striking or engaging in work slowdowns.
Those provisions haven’t won over union leaders at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, which represents line workers and other employees at the two utilities.
After Mills vetoed an earlier Pine Tree Power bill in 2021, IBEW 1837 business manager Tony Sapienza said that “the change to a consumer-owned utility would bring with it tremendous risks and uncertainty” and the union remained “opposed to replacing Central Maine Power and Versant Power with a consumer-owned utility.”
Likewise, the executive board of the 40,000-member Maine AFL-CIO came out against Pine Tree Power last year.
“The majority of workers at CMP and Emera Maine do not support this proposal,” Maine AFL-CIO President Cynthia Phinney said at the time. “They do not want these companies sold and thrown into legal uncertainty.”
One concern raised by the unions is that, because Pine Tree Power would be a quasi-municipal entity run by an elected board, any workers could be considered public employees. Under state law, public workers are prohibited from striking.
Pine Tree Power and the Our Power campaign, meanwhile, accused CMP and Versant of “spending big on fear tactics and misinformation to trick both workers and customers” while predicting Pine Tree Power would lead to “more and better jobs for utility workers than the status quo.”
"We have enough money, we're fine," owner Paul Sullivan told WBZ-TV. "You can have too much believe me. That's called greed."
All the old people were inundated with ads on their favorite radio and TV programs. Outspent 40-1 with our own money.
Democratic governor was against it.
We never had a chance.
Yeah, I apologize. I am out of touch when it comes to overdoses and probably domestic violence, but as someone who has lived all over the state, there aren't a lot of "unsafe" places.
I linked 3 years from that website, but there are details for every year on that site and having 18 dead in one day will definitely skew the numbers more than most locales.
I am a simpleton.
This is all very embarrassing. Please don't read.
I grew up in a home that had Rush Limbaugh blasting every day from 12-3 in the 90s. My parents would record onto the longest cassette tapes they could find, and it would be my job to turn the tape over if I was home. I would get called (before cell phones) to be reminded to do this task.
That definitely colored my worldview. When I went to college in the earth 00s, I would sometimes get homesick and listen to a little bit of the program. Brain worms.
I jumped onto podcasting very early, listening to all of the early programs. I drifted over to Free Talk Live and would download their podcast episodes daily. I listened to Adam Curry's "Daily Source Code", and then followed him over to his current show "No Agenda" and listened to that religiously.
I read a lot of Atlas Shrugged on my honeymoon.
Over time I extricated myself from No Agenda and FTL. I'm old (42) so it's hard to remember when a lot of the changes happened.
Moved eventually over to CTH, trueanon.
I went vegan in 2016. This kind of helped me along, seeing the good in people, animals, everyone. I'm still a baby communist living a bougie suburban life.
Maine is the most wooded US state. Locally, we actually consider Lewiston to be pretty ugly.