How did your state legislator score on labor issues?

PHOTO: Doug "Crittah" Hall gathers signatures to put a rent stabilization ordinance on the ballot in Augusta. Photo courtesy of the Maine Labor Climate Council.

Happy Election Day! Today, working people take back our power and start to reverse the pro-billionaire policies that have made life unaffordable for families.

For weeks, union members have been knocking on doors all over Maine to support Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate, Matt Dunlap for Congress, Hannah Pingree for Governor, and all of our pro-labor candidates. Over the weekend, union members were out doing Get out the Vote door knocking.

The U.S. Senate has been described as the “world’s most exclusive club.” 73 out of our 100 Senators, including Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King, are millionaires, even though people of such wealth make up just 7 percent of the U.S. population.