Media Library
"Fair Share" has gotten attention in several media including radio, Internet, television, and newspaper coverage. There are several "Letters to the Editor" of various newspapers in Adobe PDF format (download free Adobe Reader) as well as web links to media outlets that have covered the issue. If you have information about media coverage not linked here, please let us know. Please include the name of the source (e.g. Kennebec Journal, WGME, etc.) and the date, time, channel, link, or page (as applies) that you saw the coverage. Links and media are copyright of their respective owners where applies. They are shown here for informational purposes only. Please notify us if any citations are incorrect.
Television
WCSH (TV 6, Portland)
- "Line In New Budget Requires Union Dues From State Workers", News Archive
- "Closed Shop", Fred Nutter, Editorial Director, April 27, 2005
- "State
Workers Stage Union Protest", Chris Rose, July 10, 2006
Newspaper
Bangor Daily News
- "State
Workers Deserve...", op/ed piece April 2, 2007
- "Fair Share Provisions" ( pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 3, 2005
- "Union Should Play Fair" ( pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 4, 2005
Ellsworth American
- "Fair Share or Foul? Governor's Budget Provides $700,000 MSEA Windfall" ( pdf of news clipping), Victoria Wallace, April 21, 2005
- "All Unions Large and Small" ( pdf of news clipping), Mike Brown, April 28, 2005
- "A Warped Idea of Fairness" ( pdf of news clipping), April 28, 2005
Kennebec Journal
- "Union Dues- Workers for State Must Pay" ( pdf of news clipping), AP, April 12, 2005
- "Why force state workers to join employee's union?" (pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, April 19, 2005
- "Union dues plan unfair to workers" ( pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, April 20, 2005
- "Employees not forced to join state union" ( pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, April 22, 2005
- "State workers should fight 'forced unionism' " (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, April 24, 2005
- "Wrong to force people to pay fee to MSEA" (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, April 26, 2005
- "Unfair to force workers to support labor union", Letter to the Editor, April 26, 2005
- "State union membership riddled with inequities" (pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, April 30, 2005
- "No interest in state employees' union" (pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, May 2, 2005
- "State Employees 'Fair share' fee galls non-union employees" (pdf of news clipping ), Susan M. Cover, May 2, 2005
- "State employees' union should decrease dues" ( pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, May 4, 2005
- "State has betrayed unionized employees" (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 4, 2005
- "Nonunion state workers could give up raises" (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 6, 2005
- "State workers' union should split from AFL-CIO" (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 6, 2005
- "Forced union dues, anti-gay ads rankle" (pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, May 6, 2005
- "Obligatory union fees play into Democrats' hands" (pdf of news clipping ), Letter to the Editor, May 6, 2005
- "Some
workers seek to resist union fees", article by Susan Cover, July 1
2005
- "Union makes concessions in fight over mandatory fee", article by Susan Cover, July 15 2005
- "Law enforcement workers to vote on backing out of state union", article by Susan Cover, Sept 14 2005
- "Officers to create union of their own", article on decertification by Susan Cover, October 1 2005
- "State's
non-union employees protest imposition of union fees", July 11 2005
Lewiston Sun Journal
- "Union Dues" (login required), Letter to the Editor, May 1, 2005
Morning Sentinel
- "State union wins as taxpayers, some workers lose" (pdf of news clipping), Editorial, April 21, 2005
- "Union service fees amount to forced membership" (pdf of news clipping), Editorial, May 3, 2005
- "Service fees help equal the 'paying' field" (pdf of news clipping), Letter to the Editor, May 6, 2005
- "State's
non-union employees protest imposition of union fees", July 11 2005
Portland Press-Herald
- "Why force state workers to pay union dues?" , Sen. Rich Nass and Rep. John Robinson
- "State's
non-union employees protest imposition of union fees", July 11 2005
The Olympian (Olympia, Washington)
Magazine
Down East Magazine
- July 2005 issue (not available online)
Radio
Maine Public Radio (90.5 FM)
- Maine
Things Considered April April 3, 2007
- State
Workers Seek to Undo Union April 17, 2006
- Maine Things Considered (this is an audio clip and will open in Windows Media Player) June 23 , 2005
Other
As Maine Goes (Discussion Forum Links)
- "Union Arm Twisting", April 5, 2005
- "Maine SEIU Union: Out of Control", March 12, 2005