Maine: Employee Free Choice Act

Sen. John Ensign (R-Nevada), the chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, said his committee will not be expending any resources in Maine in the last two weeks of the election.

In a conference call with reporters today, he said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Bangor) will win by 10 to 15 points against her opponent, U.S. Rep. Tom Allen (D-Portland).

“We have watched Sen. Collins, she has never been under double digits (in the polls),” Ensign said. “People know her and know her record.”

Senate candidates Susan Collins (R-Bangor) and Tom Allen (D-Portland) both denounced an ad that hit Collins on her support of the Iraq War.

The ad is from the third party veterans’ organization VoteVets.org that opposes the Iraq War.

In the ad, Alex Cornell du Houx, an Iraq War veteran, said $2 billion of Maine’s tax dollars went to the war while Iraq got rich off oil profits.

There’s a lot of spin kicking around about the Employee Free Choice Act, also known as the “card-check” legislation. PolitickerME will attempt to break the bill down to determine what it really does.

The bill adds another means for unions to organize, designed to circumvent some of the problems workers frequently encounter in the process.

At a recent community dinner in Saco, U.S. Senate candidate Tom Allen (D-Portland) was asked about attack ads targeting him for his support of the Employee Free Choice Act. See the below video for his response.

The EFCA seeks to make it easier for workers to unionize by requiring that employers recognize them if organizers get a majority of the bargaining unit to sign authorization cards.