Arthur Phillips, economic policy analyst at MECEP, called that bill a “historic step forward,” but wrote that the veto of LD 588 makes it a “partial victory.” “These exclusions are rooted in laws passed during the Jim Crow era, when the majority of Black workers were employed in agriculture and domestic labor,” Phillips wrote. “Maine had a chance to right that historic wrong, and the Governor chose not to.”
Gov. Mills vetoes farmworker protections bill
