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Efforts on Health Care, Prescription Drugs and Public Good Earn Chellie Pingree the Backing of over 10,000 Service Workers in M
By willyAUGUSTA - Citing her record of putting everyday people first, service workers represented by the over 10,000-member Maine State Employees Association, Local 1989 of the Service Employees International Union, today announced their endorsement of Chellie Pingree in Maine’s First Congressional District.
“As a state senator, Chellie Pingree took on the prescription drug companies to pass the first-in-the-nation Maine Rx legislation, making prescription drugs more affordable in Maine,” said Bruce Hodsdon, president of MSEA-SEIU Local 1989. “She’s not afraid to take on the prescription drug companies, the insurance industry and the oil companies. That’s the kind of leadership we need at the national level.”
”Chellie knows exactly what it’s like to work and raise a family in Maine,” President Hodsdon added. “She understands that with the right leadership, government at the national level can help make life better for working families. Chellie will provide the leadership to find solutions to today’s problems and tomorrow’s.”
“MSEA is an important endorsement and I'm proud and honored to have their support,” Pingree said in a statement. “We see eye to eye on the important issues that working men and women in Maine face. I was proud to work closely with them in the Maine Senate and I look forward to working together to win this election and get to work on creating and keeping high quality jobs here in Maine.”
The Maine State Employees Association, SEIU Local 1989, represents workers in all three branches of Maine State Government, the Community College System, the Maine Military Authority, Maine Maritime Academy, Maine Turnpike Authority, Maine Public Employees Retirement System, York County government workers, Waldo County government workers, Lewiston City and School workers, Child Development Services, home-care workers in Maine’s Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program, and workers at the Green Valley Association in Patten and Treats Falls House in Orono. Last fall, over 2,200 home-based child care providers formed a union with MSEA-SEIU.
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