AUGUSTA — Some Maine lawmakers say they feel vindicated after three logging companies were fined for hiring Canadian loggers who then brought their own equipment into the United States.

Sen. Troy Jackson, a Democrat and logger from Allagash, has been pushing state and federal labor officials to crack down on what he maintains are labor violations being committed by 20 to 25 companies.

But James Cote of the Maine Forest Products Council tells the Bangor Daily News that since only three cases were prosecuted, the issue isn’t as widespread as it was originally believed.

In a consent order filed in Aroostook County Superior Court, the Fort Kent companies – B. J. Jalbert, A. D. Logging and S.L. Logging – agreed to pay $1,000 fines.

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