An Act to Allow Workers to Work Without Having to Pay Labor Organization Service Fees
Maine Legislature, Session 131, LD 1707
Committee: Labor and Housing
Sponsors: MORRIS
Amends: 26 MRSA §600-B, 26 MRSA §963, 26 MRSA §979-B, 26 MRSA §1023, 26 MRSA §1283

Legislative Document
No. 1707
H.P. 1096
House of Representatives, April 18, 2023
An Act to Allow Workers to Work Without Having to Pay Labor 
Organization Service Fees
Reference to the Committee on Labor and Housing suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MORRIS of Turner.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  26 MRSA §600-B is enacted to read:
§600-B.  Service fee for representation prohibited
An employee who has refrained from joining or participating in the activities of an 
organization for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining that is the 
bargaining agent for the employee may not be required to pay to the organization a service 
fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those expenditures that are germane to 
the organization's representational activities.
Sec. 2.  26 MRSA §963, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 415, §2, is amended to 
read:
2.  Not join a union.  Refrain from joining or participating in the activities of 
organizations for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining, except that an 
employee may be required to pay to the organization that is the bargaining agent for the 
employee a service fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those expenditures 
that are germane to the organization's representational activities.
Sec. 3.  26 MRSA §979-B, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 415, §6, is amended 
to read:
2.  Not join a union.  Refrain from joining or participating in the activities of 
organizations for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining, except that an 
employee may be required to pay to the organization that is the bargaining agent for the 
employee a service fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those expenditures 
that are germane to the organization's representational activities.
Sec. 4.  26 MRSA §1023, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 415, §10, is amended 
to read:
2.  Not join a union.  Refrain from joining or participating in the activities of 
organizations for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining, except that an 
employee may be required to pay to the organization that is the bargaining agent for the 
employee a service fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those expenditures 
that are germane to the organization's representational activities.
Sec. 5.  26 MRSA §1283, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 2007, c. 415, §15, is amended 
to read:
2.  Not join a union.  Refrain from joining or participating in the activities of 
organizations for the purposes of representation and collective bargaining, except that an 
employee may be required to pay to the organization that is the bargaining agent for the 
employee a service fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those expenditures 
that are germane to the organization's representational activities.
SUMMARY
This bill prohibits requiring an employee who has refrained from joining or 
participating in the activities of an organization for the purposes of representation and 
collective bargaining that is the bargaining agent for the employee to pay to the 
organization a service fee that represents the employee's pro rata share of those 
expenditures that are germane to the organization's representational activities.