Lawmaker Says Decoster Bill Passage Necessary to Land O'lakes Deal

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AUGUSTA -- The sponsor of a bill that would remove workers' right to unionize at the Jack DeCoster-owned Quality Egg Farm in Turner told the House of Representatives on Thursday morning that the company was in sale negotiations with a subsidiary of Land O'Lakes Inc.

But the extent of those talks is unclear, as is whether the sudden disclosure of a deal influenced Thursday's preliminary House vote to repeal workers' 14-year-old right to organize.

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Lawmaker Says Decoster Bill Passage Necessary to Land O'lakes Deal

Rep. Dale Crafts, R-Lisbon Falls, who spoke prior to the 74-68 vote along party lines, said after the decision that the Maine law was a sticking point in sale negotiations, a point proponents of t...

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