right-to-work

Certified for the November ballot in Colorado is Amendment 47, the Colorado Right to Work Initiative.

The clear choice is to vote "YES" on 47. Prospective workers should never be forced to join a union in order to be employed; they should also not be forced to pay dues that support partisan political operations without their consent.  The future of the conservative movement should not be completely anti-union: workers should still have the right to organize a union, strike, and bargain collectively. But the fact is that compulsory union membership fosters both corruption and a bad business climate.

A group called "A Better Colorado" has been supporting this initiative. But the unions aren't going down without a fight. United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 7 has filed 5 retaliatory ballot initiatives; this includes mandating full coverage health insurance for companies with 20 or more employees, increasing the valuation of non-residential property assessments for property taxes, mandating an annual "cost-of-living" wage increase, and requiring "safe and healthy workplaces" .... without actually defining "safe" and "healthy".

Bottom line: Support CO - Amendment 47. It's not anti-union. It's anti-monopolistic unions and pro-worker rights