Legislature sustains Mills’ veto of farmworker minimum wage bill

Several of the bill’s supporters, including the Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, highlighted that this was Mills’ second veto of legislation that would benefit farmworkers. Last year, she vetoed a bill that would have extended collective bargaining rights to agricultural workers.

Click here to read the full story, first published July 25, 2023 in the Portland Press Herald.