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  • Visa Cap Cuts Off Tourism Workers (Maine resorts rely on 3500 "obedient" foreign workers)

    03/21/2004 7:49:01 AM PST · by fight_truth_decay · 38 replies · 319+ views
    Portland Press Herald ^ | Sunday, March 21, 2004 | Matt Wickenheiser
    Ogunquit's Meadowmere Resort swells each summer with Vacationland visitors, tourists enjoying the coastal hotel's Roman bath, jacuzzi, spa, pools, pub and other luxuries. For 21 weeks, guests pack the resort's 145 rooms, and the Meadowmere doubles the size of its staff. The resort needs at least 35 additional workers to bring extra towels poolside, serve gin and tonics at the pub, or run the room service cart up and down the halls. The Meadowmere normally can fill half of those open seasonal positions with local help, and traditionally has turned to temporary foreign workers to augment its labor force. This...
  • Turnpike toll plan would be aimed at tourists ~ Another reason not to vacation in MAINE!

    03/04/2004 12:28:39 PM PST · by SheLion · 29 replies · 203+ views
    boston.com ^ | 6 March 2004
    <p>PORTLAND, Maine -- Summer tourists who clog Maine's highways would bear the brunt of a new toll plan under consideration by the Maine Turnpike Authority.</p> <p>Under the plan, one of four toll schemes under consideration, the turnpike would charge higher tolls during July and August.</p>