Maine Governor Wants a More Pro-Business Look at the Department of Labor

Needless to say, the unions are not happy:

Maine Gov. Paul LePage has ordered the removal of a 36-foot mural depicting the state's labor history from the lobby of the Department of Labor headquarters building in Augusta.

In addition, the LePage administration is renaming several department conference rooms that carry the names of pro-labor icons such as Cesar Chavez.

LePage spokesman Dan Demeritt says the mural and the conference room names are not in keeping with the department's pro-business goals and some business owners complained....

Don Berry, President of the Maine AFL-CIO, issued a statement Wednesday morning in response to the announcement that the mural is being removed.

“It's unfortunate that Governor LePage continues to pick fights with the working class in Maine. This is political payback, the opposite of putting people first. It's a spiteful, mean-spirited move by the Governor that does nothing to create jobs or improve the Maine economy," said Berry.

To the unions the Labor Department is not supposed to be pro-business, it's supposed to figure out new ways to funnel government money to union bank accounts.