Amend the bill by striking out the title and substituting the following:

Amend the bill by striking out everything after the title and inserting the following:

summary

This amendment, which is the majority report of the Joint Standing Committee on Education, removes the appropriation from the bill, changes the bill to a resolve and provides that the Legislature supports the endorsement of the Chancellor of the University of Maine System of the concept of the establishment of a labor center at the University of Southern Maine. This center would draw on knowledge from a number of different fields of study and offer labor education and policy development, including, but not limited to, courses in the history and role of working people and the labor movement and training and policy workshops on topics such as workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and labor law, to students and community organizations. The amendment also provides that the Legislature endorses the recommendation of the faculty of the University of Southern Maine that a labor center be established at the University of Southern Maine using existing budgeted resources of the University of Maine System.