If you eat food grown or produced in Maine, ask yourself these two questions:
  1. Do you believe that Maine's farmworkers deserve to be paid at least the minimum wage?
  2. Do you believe that Maine's farmworkers should be able to talk with each other about workplace conditions, without fear of losing their job?
If your answer is yes, please contact your legislator and the governor to ask them to support LD 398:
An Act to Make Agricultural Workers and Other Related Workers Employees Under the Wage and Hour Laws.

The economics of farming are difficult, but cheap food should not come on the backs of the farmworkers. LD 398 is a compromise bill with very modest advances for farm worker rights. Given that nearly all Maine farms say that they are already paying more than the minimum wage, this bill simply codifies that reality.
  • Resources to contact your legislators can be found here.
MUUSAN is a statewide advocacy and public policy network anchored in our Unitarian Universalist faith and animated by its principles. MUUSAN welcomes as partners and collaborators all those who share our values. We link our 26 Maine congregations and many friends in an active legislative ministry.