MSEA drops labor complaint against LePage
The Maine State Employees Association has dropped a complaint before the Maine Labor Relations Board that the LePage administration illegally hired private contractors to perform state employees' work after the union's contract expired in 2011.
Timothy Belcher, the MSEA's general counsel, told the Bangor Daily News that the union withdrew its complaint in order to focus on other pending complaints being reviewed by the MLRB.
"We just have so many battles and so many irons in the fire right now that we need to pick our battles," he told the BDN.
The MSEA's complaint alleged that once the state employees' contract expired in September 2011, certain jobs performed by unionized state employees were restructured or subcontracted without prior bargaining. The union said such action is a violation of its previously held contract, which the state disputed.
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