Sen. Bailey earns a perfect score from unions for pro-worker voting record

Posted: September 19, 2024 | Senator Bailey

AUGUSTA — Sen. Donna Bailey, D-Saco, earned a perfect score from the Maine AFL-CIO for her votes to support working Maine families. Sen. Bailey is one of 22 Senators to earn either a 90 percent or a perfect score from the Maine AFL-CIO.

“Throughout my legislative career, I have been proud to stand with Maine’s hardworking men and women,” said Sen. Bailey. “Since the pandemic, I know that the cost of living has continued to go up, so it’s critical that we continue to support Maine’s laborers and workers. Looking ahead, Maine can be a state that brings new workers – and their families – here to live, work, and retire in.”

Sen. Bailey has a long history of supporting Maine workers, including being an original co-sponsor for Sen. Mattie Daughtry’s, D-Brunswick, statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave Program in 2023. As the Senate Chair of the Legislature’s Health Care, Insurance, and Financial Services Committee, Sen. Bailey worked on bills that lower the costs of health care, insurance premiums, and prescription drugs for Mainers.

Maine AFL-CIO, a statewide federation of more than 200 labor unions, based their legislative scorecard on legislators’ votes on 11 bills, including the bipartisan supplemental budget and pro-worker bills from Maine Senate Democrats:

  • LD 372, “An Act to Increase Enforcement and Accountability for Wage and Hour Violations,” sponsored by Sen. Mike Tipping, D-Orono
  • LD 373, “An Act to Improve Labor Conditions for Maine Workers,” sponsored by Sen. Mike Tipping, D-Orono
  • LD 1639, “An Act to Address Unsafe Staffing of Nurses and Improve Patient Care,” sponsored by Sen. Stacy Brenner, D-Scarborough
  • LD 1756, “An Act to Protect Employee Freedom of Speech,” sponsored by Sen. Mattie Daughtry, D-Brunswick
  • LD 1983, “An Act to Establish the Maine Buy American and Build Maine Act,” sponsored by Pres. Troy Jackson, D-Allagash

The Maine AFL-CIO represents more than 40,000 Maine workers and retirees delivering public services or working at paper mills, shipyards, hospitals, construction sites, nonprofits, utilities, and in many other industries.

A PDF of the full scorecard can be found here.

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