Isn’t it nice that some big-business bosses outside of Maine can afford a famous HBO “Sopranos” star for their antiunion ads? Big-business bosses are the ones intimidating employees, not union representatives.

The Employee Free Choice Act gives employees another option from the continued choice of a private ballot. That is because the intimidating employers have intervened before a vote can even be arranged. Effective big-business bosses may not need unions because they already support good pay and benefits for their workers. Others are more interested in short-term profits than in the longer term viability of a trained, effective work force and business operation.

Jane Fairchild

Orneville Township