Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §852-A is enacted to read:

§852-A.__Professional strikebreaking prohibited

1.__Definitions.__As used in this section, unless the context otherwise indicates, the following terms have the following meanings.

A.__"Professional strikebreaking activity" means the offering or supplying of persons to perform the tasks normally assigned to employees involved in a labor dispute, strike or lockout.

2.__Professional strikebreaking activity prohibited.__A person, partnership, union, agency, firm, corporation or other legal entity may not perform professional strikebreaking activities if that entity has contracted on at least 3 occasions within the previous 5 years to supply 100 or more employees to an employer involved in a labor dispute to perform tasks normally assigned to employees involved in the labor dispute.

Sec. 2. 26 MRSA §856, as enacted by PL 1965, c. 189, is repealed.

Sec. 3. 26 MRSA §856-A is enacted to read:

§856-A.__Civil action; injunctive or other relief

A person, corporation or labor organization with judicial standing may bring a civil action for injunctive or other relief to enforce this subchapter.

Sec. 4. 26 MRSA §857 is enacted to read:

§857.__Exemptions

This subchapter does not apply to the employment of:

1.__Security guards.__Security guards during a labor dispute if the security guards perform security guard duties only;

2.__Special maintenance workers.__Special maintenance workers employed by the seller or manufacturer of the equipment maintained or persons who have performed the maintenance work on the equipment before the beginning of the labor dispute, strike or lockout; and