BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Irving Woodlands has complained that it is the only Maine landowner affected by a 2004 state law allowing forest workers to bargain.
Now, according to the Bangor Daily News, Irving officials have laid off 80 workers and said as many as 300 more will go if the law is not repealed.
Mary Keith, vice president of communications for the New Brunswick-based corporation, said Monday the company is looking for a resolution.
Maine state Sen. Troy Jackson, a Democrat from Allagash, who works as a logger and who co-sponsored the law, called Irving’s threat “a game of chicken.”
The law that was enacted in 2004 had been suspended.
The Bangor News reported that Irving Woodlands has a work force of about 520 people — 98 percent of them Maine residents.
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